On Friday, a global IT outage affecting multiple industries, such as airlines, hospitals, and media, was brought on by bugs in a software update from the globally recognized cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike. Various Entain platforms related to gambling were made inaccessible.
Businesses using Microsoft Windows software felt the effects of the outage most. CrowdStrike verified that there had been no cyberattack in a statement released on Friday. It was a "defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts" that was the source of the issues instead.
Businesses using Microsoft Windows software felt the effects of the outage most. CrowdStrike verified that there had been no cyberattack in a statement released on Friday. It was a "defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts" that was the source of the issues instead.