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Microsoft says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage.

It’s the first time a figure has been put on the incident and suggests it could be the worst cyber event in history.

The glitch came from a security company called CrowdStrike which sent out a corrupted software update to its huge number of customers.

Microsoft, which is helping customers recover said in a blog post: "We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices."

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[-] Jtee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Especially if you have bitlocker enabled. Can't boot to safe mode without entering the key, which typically only IT has access to.

[-] magikmw@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

You can give up the key to user and force a replacement on next DC connection, but get people to enter a key that's 32 characters long over the phone... Not automatable anyway.

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