
NBC Radio news reports major airlines, medical facilities, businesses and police forces around the world were affected by a massive information technology glitch affecting Microsoft cloud computing services early Friday. The cybersecurity company CrowdStrike said Friday that the outages were the result of one of its routine software updates gone wrong, and was “not a security incident or cyberattack.”
CrowdStrike, which provides cybersecurity services and software for many large corporations that use Microsoft systems, has issued a new software update that has automatically fixed some computers. But some others must be manually restarted and patched, causing massive delays.
Microsoft announced late Friday morning that its 365 apps and services have recovered. Some individual customers may still be impacted, however.
Chattooga County Tax Commissioner Joy Hampton said that her office was not able to process any motor vehicle transactions on Friday.







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