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…

  • alphacyberrangerEnglish
    34•2 months ago

    One possible fix is to delete a particular file while booting in safe mode. But then they’ll need to fix each system manually. My company encrypts the disks as well so it’s going to be a even bigger pain (for them). I’m just happy my weekend started early.

      • alphacyberrangerEnglish
        4•2 months ago

        Yeah that would be case in most laptops. So if bitlocker is involved as well what could be the possible fix.

          • @[email protected]English
            3•2 months ago

            Yeah, most large orgs have a key server, or back up to AD. If you don’t have that, and no recovery key, you’re fucked and that data is gone.

              • @[email protected]English
                5•2 months ago

                I’ll give you one guess.

                (That’s why when I was in charge of that stuff at one company, I had that recovery key printed out and kept separately in a lockbox.)

          • @conciselyverboseEnglish
            1•2 months ago

            Even if they do, though, if your business isn’t 20 people at 1 location, it’s going to be a giant headache to get people everywhere to fix them all.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•2 months ago

      You have ta have access to boot in safe mode too, I guess I can’t on my work pc for example.

      What a shitty workaround & might crowd strike burn in hell lol