The CEO of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said Friday that the company is “deeply sorry” following a global internet outage that hit airlines and businesses around the world.
“First of all, we’re very sorry for the impact this has had on our customers, on our travelers and on everyone who’s been affected by this, including our company,” George Kurtz said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show. “We know what the issue was, and we’re working on resolving the issue. We’re currently in the process of restoring our existing systems.”
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“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers affected by the flaw found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” Kurtz said. He said in a post early Friday morning. X states that “Mac and Linux hosts are not affected.”
“This is not a security incident or cyber attack,” he added. “The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We have directed customers to our support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and ongoing updates on our website.”
Kurtz said in an interview that his company has been “working with customers all night long.”
“Many of our customers have rebooted their systems and we have made some fixes on our side and they should be back up and operational,” he said. “We are working with some of the systems that are not back up.”
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated in the post The company said on Friday it was “closely monitoring a technical issue impacting our U.S. airlines’ IT systems.”
“Several airlines have requested the FAA’s assistance in grounding the aircraft until the issue is resolved,” the FAA added.
