Crowdstrike Outage 2024. Meet crowdstrike, the company at the heart of the global tech outage many fortune 500 companies use the cybersecurity firm to help detect and block hacks. On july 19, 2024, as part of regular operations, crowdstrike released a content configuration update (via channel files) for the windows sensor that resulted in a widespread outage.
The outage — linked to a software update from popular cybersecurity firm crowdstrike — has affected computers running microsoft windows at organizations across various sectors, including. Industries ranging from healthcare to banking, air travel, and others were hit by a global it outage on friday, july 19th, that impacted 8.5 million windows pcs and servers.