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Global IT disruptions have caused chaos across the world resulting in the shutdown of businesses including; airlines, railways and cashiers, telecommunications providers, broadcast media and financial institutions.
Reports say the global IT outage was caused by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, whose software is used by a wide range of industries around the world to protect against hackers and outside breaches.
Further information reveals that the issue appears to be causing damage to machines running Microsoft Windows operating systems.
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The outage affected airline operations in countries such as Singapore, the United States and Australia.
In an update shared on the X account on Friday, Microsoft 365 said that “some services continue to see improved availability as we progress with our mitigation actions.”
According to Microsoft’s webpage that tracks the status of its services, “users may not be able to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services.”
The global IT outage also affected applications including Microsoft Fabric, Teams, Purview, Defender, SharePoint, and OneNote.
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