Cybersecurity giant Crowdstrike suffers major outage affecting businesses around the world

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Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike suffered a major outage on Friday, the company told NBC, impacting businesses globally.

The outage resulted from an issue with the latest update, the company said. Crowdstrike is now in the process of rolling back that update globally.

“CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor,” the company said in a recorded message.

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