According to Microsoft, 8.5 million Windows devices may have been affected by the global cyber security company Crowdstrike’s IT crash. That’s less than one percent of all Windows devices. That’s what Microsoft writes on its official blog.
It was when Crowdstrike sent out an update for the Falcon software to its customers that the problems started. PC users who had Crowdstrike installed on their computer were met with a blue screen with an error message.
– A lot of these computers have therefore also crashed, says IT security specialist Karl Emil Nikka.
How easily the problem can be fixed on the affected computers depends on an important factor, according to Karl Emil Nikka:
– If the computer can enter the Windows operating system, then they can do the update. The problem is that if the computers don’t even get into Windows, then they can’t get the application to update this faulty file.