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One Year Since Crowdstrike Global Outage. What Has Changed Since?

UNITED STATES, JUL 19 – A faulty CrowdStrike software update caused network disruptions in at least 759 US hospitals, impacting patient services and raising concerns about public health, researchers said.

  • A faulty software update on July 19, 2024, pushed by CrowdStrike caused millions of Microsoft Windows computers to crash into repeated reboots.
  • On the outage's one-year anniversary, UCSD researchers released a study, noting at least 759 US hospitals experienced disruption, as detailed in JAMA Network Open.
  • Analysis reveals that over 200 hospitals suffered outages directly affecting patient services, indicating significant disruption in US healthcare during the outage.
  • George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, said in a LinkedIn post, 'What defined us wasn’t that moment, it was everything that came next,' emphasizing resilience and transparency.
  • Beyond CrowdStrike, this year other major cloud outages hit Google Cloud, Spotify and Microsoft’s Authenticator app, highlighting ongoing cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
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