UPDATE: CrowdStrike outage sparks global chaos, new details surface the media won’t tell you

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Technology outages caused havoc across the US and around the world Friday morning, and disturbing new details are surfacing amid the fallout. The outage is affecting everything, including airlines, bank systems, railways, telecoms, TV broadcast companies, grocery stores, pharmacies, manufacturing companies, and much more.

From ABC News: A wave of IT outages swept across the globe Friday morning, causing thousands of flight cancellations and stalling internal and external systems across a variety of industries including hospitals, banks, stock exchanges and other institutions, as some Microsoft-based computers ceased to work.

CrowdStrike — an American cybersecurity technology firm that provides cloud workload protection, threat intelligence and cyberattack response services — said the outage is not a due to a cyber attack; it was caused by a software issue that has been identified and a fix had been deployed.

Some systems can be fixed and back up and running immediately — but for others it “could be hours, could be a bit longer” before everything is back up and running, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told CNBC in an on-air interview. For some customers, it will take more than rebooting systems to work through fixes.

Prominent X/Twitter user RAWSALERT announced, “Cybersecurity experts say this is set to be the biggest IT outage in history. As CrowdStrike shares plunged 20% in pre-market trading in New York, but CrowdStrike’s CEO stated that the outage was not caused by a cyberattack.”

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said in a social media post, “Yesterday, CrowdStrike released an update that began impacting IT systems globally. We are aware of this issue and are working closely with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online.”

Tesla and X/Twitter owner Elon Musk replied, “This gave a seizure to the automotive supply chain.”

SpaceX and X/Twitter engineer Christopher Stanley warned, “This is a wake up reminder that you shouldn’t have an internet connected privileged binary running on your production systems. What was a bad update could have easily been a massive adversary backdoor. A third party vendor will always be the weakest link. Isolate critical systems.”

“100%,” agreed Musk.

And… here we go… the outage is reportedly affecting VOTING MACHINES, per journalist George:

BREAKING: Reports are coming from Maricopa County, Arizona that Dominion voting machines are malfunctioning county-wide as a result of the CrowdStrike outage. Officials have long claimed that the machines are NEVER connected to the internet… you can laugh at those claims now

Experts like @ColonelReynolds suggest the issues, “Might be because of e-poll books and print on demand printers being affected by CrowdStrike.”

So far three different people say all but 10 locations in the county are down. If Maricopa County officials want us to trust their elections, they’re going to need to start being honest about just how easily these machines can be affected by cyber attacks.

As usual, Maricopa County’s Chief Propagandists are trying to downplay this in their press release. When they say “some voting locations” they really mean “MOST.”

Independent journalist Laura Loomer provided additional disturbing insight about the person at the helm of CrowdStrike:

🚨🚨🚨Did you know that the President of CrowdStrike Services and the Chief Security Officer served as the Executive Assistant Director of the FBI under the Obama-Biden administration? 🚨🚨🚨

Weird how the CrowdStrike @CrowdStrike global outage happened during President Trump’s nomination speech at the RNC Convention.

Meet Shawn Henry. Shawn Henry is the Chief Security Officer and President of CrowdStrike Services. He joined CrowdStrike in 2012 after retiring from the FBI senior executive service.

Prior to joining the private sector, Henry spent 24 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he held various operational and leadership roles, eventually becoming Executive Assistant Director, overseeing half of the FBI’s investigative operations, including all FBI criminal and cyber investigations worldwide, international operations, and the FBI’s critical incident response to major investigations and disasters. He also managed computer crime investigations spanning the globe, and established the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force.

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