The global tech outage that has impacted tens of thousands of small and major businesses and millions of people around the world could take 'some time' to fix.
Crowdstrike boss George Kurtz says global outage could take 'some time' to fix but stresses they 'know what the issue is'
Major news outlets including SBS, Network 10, the ABC and Sky News Australia were also temporarily prevented from broadcasting scheduled programming. Crowdstrike - an American cybersecurity based in Texas - overnight revealed the issues stemmed from an update it was rolling out to a cloud-based product called Falcon.
Crowdstrike boss George Kurtz apologised for the outage that impacted millions around the world and stressed a fix has been issued, but could take"some time". Picture: Today Show/NBC
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