CrowdStrike Majority of devices affected by outage returned to normal

Following Friday’s computer outages, cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said a “significant number” of the devices affected by the outages have returned to normal operation.

The company, whose faulty security update caused computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system to crash, stated in a social media post that they “continue to focus on getting all systems back up and running.”

Microsoft estimates that 8.5 million computers worldwide were affected in what has been described as one of its largest outages.

Businesses, banks, hospitals and airlines were hit the hardest by the outage, and are still struggling to get their computer systems fully operational.

“We recognize the huge impact this is having on everyone. Our customers, partners, and IT teams are working tirelessly to help. We are very grateful to everyone. We apologize for any inconvenience caused,” CrowdStrike said in a statement.

However, the company did not say how many devices were still affected by the outage.

More than 1,400 flights were canceled in the US on Sunday due to the disruption, according to aviation tracking platform FlightAware.

Delta and United Airlines are the airlines worst hit by the outage in the US.

Turkish Airlines similarly announced flight cancellations.

In the UK, Sky News was unable to broadcast for more than an hour.

The issue began at 9:00 p.m. ET on Thursday and affected Windows users with cybersecurity software CrowdStrike Falcon, according to Microsoft, but the full extent of the problem only became clear on Friday morning.

With the problem spreading worldwide on Friday, many services provided with the Windows operating system were unable to be provided.

Problem statements came one after another from the countries’ basic sectors such as aviation, healthcare, banking and publishing.

The initial reports from Australia and New Zealand in the eastern part of the world soon became clear that they were not limited to that part of the world.

Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest businessmen, described the events as “the biggest IT fiasco ever.”