Southern California Recovering From Massive Tech Outage

IT experts warned that it could take weeks for the worldwide global tech infrastructure to fully recover after Friday’s disruption.
Southern California Recovering From Massive Tech Outage
A Delta employee interacts with a traveler waiting in line at check-in in Terminal 2, Delta Airlines, at Los Angeles airport, on July 19, 2024. Airlines, banks, TV channels and other businesses were disrupted worldwide on Friday following a major computer systems outage linked to an update on an antivirus program. Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images
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Southern California airports, ports, government agencies, and private businesses were recovering on July 20 from a massive global technology outage caused by a botched software update by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike that sparked what experts said was the “largest IT outage in history.”

IT experts warned that it could take weeks for the worldwide global tech infrastructure to fully recover after Friday’s failed software update disrupted computer systems all over the world.

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