Microsoft says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage.

It’s the first time a figure has been put on the incident and suggests it could be the worst cyber event in history.

The glitch came from a security company called CrowdStrike which sent out a corrupted software update to its huge number of customers.

Microsoft, which is helping customers recover said in a blog post: “We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices.”

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      3 months ago

      Tell me you’ve never administered at scale without telling me you’ve never administered at scale.

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      Bruh, disk encryption is not optional in many environments and dealing with unbootable LUKS Linux is pretty much on par with an unbootable Bitlocker Windows machine.