Mayor Adams and top New York City officials said emergency services, hospitals, traffic lights, water systems, public transportation and other key functions are running after a massive overnight cyber disaster triggered inadvertently by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.
An update the firm sent to clients around the world was corrupted, freezing many systems and computers running Microsoft Windows.
And it’s truly nuts, but chief executive George Kurtz acknowledged that many computer systems and work stations impacted will need to be rebooted manually. “Let me let me start with I want to personally apologize to every organization, every group and every person who has been impacted by this.
And we understand the gravity of the situation,” he told CNBC. NYC officials at a press conference today said schools are open and school buses running, although systems to track them may be disrupted.
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