Anyone affected by the CROWDSTRIKE incident?

[AviatorTom]

In case you've been living in a hole for the past few days, there was a major worldwide interruption to many computer systems (airlines, banks, government offices) on Friday 19 June 2024, caused by an incorrect update of Crowdstrike software. A fix was released in a few hours but recovery of all system can take days.

Ironically, Crowdstrike software is security software, designed to prevent major outages, yet itself caused one.

My wife and I know of two people who were affected by this. One had their flight canceled on Friday and was fortunate to book a later flight; the other's flight was canceled on Saturday, and they are still trying to book a flight. I've also noticed some websites didn't work on Friday; they seem to be okay today (Saturday).

Have you been affected by this? Or know someone who has?

Please answer in the poll and provide details in a comment.

YES - I AM AFFECTED by the Crowdstrike incident

YES - I KNOW someone affected by the Crowdstrike incident

NO - I am NOT AFFECTED by the Crowdstrike incident and I DON'T KNOW ANYONE who is

I live in a hole

Updates

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Of the 1.4 billion Windows computers, only 8.5 million were affected by the Crowdstrike incident. Most Windows computers are personal computers, whose users do not use Crowdstrike software. Most of the affected computers are commercial computers that deal with transportation, banking and health services, and the fix requires manual action on each affected computer (ex: boot 15 times, boot into Safe mode), which is why it's still a big problem.

[FreyaRed]

No. I don't allow Windows to make any updates automatically and firewall blocks svchost. exe like most system exe to external IP ranges.

MS is partially responsible because kernel modules and drivers which work at same level as windows kernel should be tested very carefully by MS before it's allowed to be released. That's the reason why Windows has such draconian driver certificate policy. Driver certification by MS is very expensive because according to MS every driver needs to be tested. Now it's undoubtedly clear those tests and certificate are just lies and fakes to make money.

[electromagnetic]

Lucky for me I was not. My sister was stranded in the morning for Vancouver to Toronto but her flight ended up sorting it through.

[RavVid]

Only in a minor way. I had difficulty in paying a bill and was eventually told they had a computer problem. Would have been more annoyed at a canceled flight which could have severe impacts with other flights, accomodation etc, meetings etc.

Does anybody remember cloud flare now? guess we'll move on fairly quickly.

[RebelinSteel]

Not me, but had a friend unable to check out of his hotel, another one who had a hospital appointment cancelled and another had to have paper records at the doctors.

[RebelinSteel]

@AviatorTom the extra part of the fun is that the vast majority of computers use Bitlocker as drive encryption, you need to disable Bitlocker first. This needs to be carried out physically on the drive, it is a 48 bit key that needs entered.
A lot of devices will just be written off.

[CrazyGirl2]

No, thankfully, I own an Apple MacBook Pro. Apparently it was only windows machines that were affected. All of our patient records both at the office where I'm doing my externship and the Rape crisis center run off of non-windows servers.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Fortunately, the interruption did not personally affect us or our businesses.

None of our family or personal friends have been either.

[Ευδεμονια]

Since my country is living in a digital Middle Age, there’s been very few effects here. I was not hit and no one I know has been.

[Alli112]

tbh didn't realize this was a big thing, just saw a couple mentions of stuff people down and people finding it suspicious.

[exitseven]

I do not know anyone who was effected and I was not either.

I recently retired from a career in IT just two weeks ago. It is already going to hell.

[purplepoppy]

My bank account seems OK and I've not had to take a flight or anything like that so it's never affected me (I think)

[on_my_knees]

I was forced to live in the woods and make friends with Baby Bigfoot.

[loves2learn]

My hubby’s company was basically at a standstill all day. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[SaoirseS]

I wasn't affected by it, and don't know anyone who was.

[gorydetails]

I was in O’hare yesterday. Flight was supposed to leave at 4:45…it didn’t leave till almost 8. And my arrival airport was a giant clusterfuck as well.

[RetroReviews]

I was briefly affected by it yesterday the servers for Atlas Earth were down for a few hours

[Sasquach]

I was like many others, but the fix came out minutes after crowd strike was found at fault (remove latest update) so no major damage was done

[MrGSpotHer]

I live in a hole I wasn't aware of it at all, the shop by me lost connection for cards but by time I got cash and came back it was fixed

[MrGSpotHer]

I've asked some people about that and it's still not that bad apparently but maybe we are all in a hole around here 🙄

[wiltingrosepetal]

Never heard of it and didn't affect anyone I know

[NathanDavis]

I don't know... I don't think so

[OlderAndWiser]

I had problems with Outlook for several days.

[paledreams]

Yes, Repco was shut :(

[strateguy632]

4th!

[jimmy2]

I am definitely living in a hole