Massive Microsoft outage hits flights, banks, stock exchanges, broadcasters

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A major IT outage affecting systems globally, including in India, Australia, Germany and other countries was reported on Friday.
In Short
Major IT Crowdstrike, Microsoft outage affects several countries
Airlines affected, emergency services hit, health services disrupted
Outage hits flight operations, trading and other services in India as well
A massive Microsoft outage unleashed havoc on computer systems across the world, grounding flights and crippling banks, stock exchanges, payment systems and emergency services. Microsoft, in a tweet approximately six hours after the outage was first reported, said that “Multiple services are continuing to see improvements in availability as our mitigation actions progress”.

The outage is possibly due to the failure of Crowdstrike Falcon, a cybersecurity platform that provides security solutions for Microsoft Windows. The disruptions continued hours after Microsoft said it was fixing the issue.