Crowdstrike's update on Microsoft outage: 'Issue found, fix deployed'

Microsoft outage: Crowdstrike clarified that the outage was not caused by a cyberattack but due a defect in an update, which has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed

Amid the ongoing chaos over the global Microsoft outage linked to US cybersecurity company Crowdstrike on Friday, the company stated that the issue had been detected and a fix deployed to restore operations.

The company clarified that the outage was not caused by a cyberattack. “The issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been deployed,” Crowdstrike chief executive officer George Kurtz said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).