Crowdstrike Outage 2024. A mass it outage has caused chaos around the world, with major airlines among the victims. 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.
It started with faulty code pushed directly to pcs by crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm that says it’s used by more than half of fortune 500 companies. It was not a cyberattack but a faulty update, said george kurtz, chief executive of crowdstrike, the cybersecurity company being held responsible for today’s tech outage.