Banks, airlines, brokerage houses report widespread outages across the globe

Businesses worldwide are experiencing outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors, many of them reported Friday. The problems are affecting various sectors, from banks, brokerage houses, news organizations to airlines.

Many customers have reported being unable to restart their computers due to the issue. This outage comes shortly after Microsoft confirmed service problems with its Microsoft 365 apps on Thursday, which affected several airlines including Delta and United.

It’s unclear what has caused the outage, but some businesses, including Australian energy company AGL, blamed an update from security firm CrowdStrike.

A moderator of the CrowdStrike subreddit said the company was aware of “widespread reports” of blue screen errors on Windows devices across multiple versions of its software. The firm stated it was investigating the cause.