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This is going to be a Big Deal for a whole lot of people. I don't know all the companies and industries that use Crowdstrike but I might guess it will result in airline delays, banking outages, and hospital computer systems failing. Hopefully nobody gets hurt because of it.
Big chunk of New Zealands banks apparently run it, cos 3 of the big ones can't do credit card transactions right now
It was mayhem at PakNSave a bit ago.
In my experience it’s always mayhem at PakNSave.
If anything, it's probably calmed P'n'S down a bit...
Bitcoin still up and running perhaps people can use that
Bitcoin Cash maybe. Didn't they bork Bitcoin (Core) so you have to wait for confirmations in the next block?
Several 911 systems were affected or completely down too