The IT outage was triggered by a defect in an update issued by Crowdstrike.
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- A widespread IT outage linked to a CrowdStrike update hit global operations on Friday.
- The outage caused travel chaos, affected hospitals, and even took out some broadcasters.
- The issue was caused by a defect in an update for Windows.
The world has been hit by one of the most widespread tech outages in history.
The Friday outage, linked to cyber security firm CrowdStrike...