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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At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News
When, one year ago today, a buggy update to software sold by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike took down millions of computers around the world and sent them into a death spiral of repeated reboots, the global cost of all those crashed machines was equivalent to one of the worst cyberattacks in history. Some of the various estimates of the total damage worldwide have stretched well into the billions of dollars. Now a new study by a team of medi…
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