Crowdstrike 2024 Outage Map. It started with faulty code pushed directly to pcs by crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm that says it’s used by more than half of fortune 500 companies. The crowdstrike outage that hit early friday morning and knocked out computers running microsoft windows has grounded flights globally.

The outage occurred july 19, 2024, with millions of windows systems failing and showing the infamous blue screen of death. An overnight outage was blamed on a software update that cybersecurity firm crowdstrike sent to.