Microsoft said Saturday it estimates that worldwide about 8.5 million computers were disabled by the outage caused by an update from the Texas based cyber security company, CrowdStrike on Friday.

8.5 million devices were confirmed affected by the CrowdStrike outage, but Microsoft says that's only a subset.

Microsoft believes 8.5 million devices were affected by CrowdStrike update outage. News. By Luke Hughes published 22 July 2024 ...

(Reuters) - A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday ...

The flawed update from cybersecurity software company CrowdStrike has affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said in a post Saturday detailing its ongoing response to the extraordinary ...

Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent. We can bring you some more from Microsoft's latest statement now. The 8.5 million Windows devices affected by the IT outage accounts for less than 1% of all machines ...

Microsoft (MSFT), which is helping customers recover said Saturday in a blog post: "we currently estimate that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5 million Windows devices." ...

Businesses and services are continuing to grapple with the aftermath of Friday's global IT outage, and although disruption across most industries appears to be easing, it's likely the impact will ...

Microsoft disclosed that 8.5 million Windows devices were impacted by CrowdStrike’s defective update, while major airlines reported progress on recovery from the outage.