Global Cyber Outage: CEO Apologizes After Update Impacts Flights, Banks, More

CrowdStrike founder and CEO George Kurtz is offering up an apology for his company’s software update that sparked a global cyber outage … and you can tell he’s sweatin’.

The tech executive addressed the major computer disruption on the “Today” show Friday morning, where he offered up a mea culpa to the millions of customers, travelers and anyone else impacted by the worldwide glitch.

GK made it clear the outage wasn’t caused by a cyber attack, but was related to a content update … which left thousands of flights grounded and service interruptions for countless businesses.

Understandably, many are left scrambling for answers amid the chaos — which is reported to be the largest IT outage in history. George noted the company has already identified the problem and has issued a fix for the update hiccup … however, he could not provide more insight into when systems would be fully up and running.

He added … “It could be some time. Sometimes, some systems won’t automatically recover… we’re not going to relent until we get every customer back to where they were.”

ICYMI … CrowdStrike sent an alert to clients overnight, where they stated their “Falcon Sensor” software update caused Microsoft Windows to crash — which prompted an ominous blue screen on many computers.