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CrowdStrike President Admits Global Outage Caused ‘Disruption and Distress’

An outage sparked by a software update disrupted banks, supermarkets, media, transport, flights, and hospital surgeries globally.
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CrowdStrike President Admits Global Outage Caused ‘Disruption and Distress’
A departure board shows canceled flights in the McNamara terminal at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on July 20, 2024. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Monica O’Shea
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CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas has admitted the company needs to get better after a worldwide IT outage caused global chaos.

The outage, sparked by a software update, disrupted flights, banks, retail, media, transport and hospitals worldwide. The IT incident caused what has been dubbed a “blue screen of death” on Windows PC devices.

Monica O’Shea
Monica O’Shea
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Monica O’Shea is a reporter based in Australia. She previously worked as a reporter for Motley Fool Australia, Daily Mail Australia, and Fairfax Regional Media. She can be reached at monica.o'[email protected]
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