CrowdStrike has addressed the cause of the outage. “The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” the security company explains. However, it may take some time before all affected systems are restored.
Speaking with NBC, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz provided an update. “It could be some time for some systems that just automatically won’t recover,” Kurtz said. “Many of the customers are rebooting the system, and it’s coming up, and it’ll be operational because we fixed it on our end.”
The outage was caused by a faulty update, which brought down several systems worldwide. Those affected in the Netherlands included the social service UWV, a hospital in Emmen and Schiphol Airport. Operations there are now restarting.
Air traffic
The disruption caused much commotion, especially at Schiphol Airport. Flights were postponed and cancelled. Because of the holiday period, the disruption could not have come at a worse time; the airport has to deal with the busiest days exactly at this time of the year. Meanwhile, systems at Schiphol are being restarted, but the crowds are still enormous.
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