Live: Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
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There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

  • NaibofTabrEnglish
    50•4 months ago

    This sort of fix might not be accessible to a lot of employees who don’t have admin access on their company laptops, and if the laptop can’t be accessed remotely by IT then the options are very limited. Trying to walk a lot of nontechnical users through this over the phone won’t go very well.

    • @[email protected]English
      17•4 months ago

      Yup, that’s me. We booted into safe mode, tried navigating into the CrowdStrike folder and boom: permission denied.

      • @CryophiliaEnglish
        11•4 months ago

        Half our shit can’t even boot into safe mode because it’s encrypted and we don’t have the keys rofl

        • @OderusEnglish
          1•4 months ago

          If you don’t have the keys, what the hell are you doing? We have bitlocker enabled and we have a way to get the recovery key so it’s not a problem. Just a huge pain in the ass.

          • @CryophiliaEnglish
            2•4 months ago

            I went home lol. Some other poor schmucks are probably gonna reformat the computers.