IT outage affects millions around the globe

The global IT failure caused by CrowdStrike, which began on Friday and is now in the hands of cybercriminals, has affected financial services firms, media broadcasters and airlines across the world, including Australia. The disruption was also reported in the US, Japan, UK, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and Argentina. CrowdStrike has attributed the global outage to the Falcon Sensor platform.