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NYC Mayor Eric Adams Addresses Massive Tech Outage; CrowdStrike CEO On Apology Tour After Cybersecurity Firm Triggered Meltdown
NYC Mayor Eric Adams said critical services are up but predicts a cascading impact today from a global tech outage inadvertently caused by CrowdStrike.
Mayor Adams and top New York City officials said emergency services, hospitals, traffic lights, water systems public transportation and other key functions are running fine after a massive overnight cyber disaster triggered inadvertently by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. And it’s truly nuts, but chief executive George Kurtz acknowledged that many computer systems and work stations impacted will need to be rebooted manually. The city’s Chief Technology Officer Matthew Fraser explained that “the Windows systems panicked” when served with CrowdStrike’s corrupted update file.
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