US Federal Agencies Hit in Outage Caused by CrowdStrike Glitch
- Some members of Congress among travelers stranded by outage
- ‘Blue screen of death’ greeted Justice Department staffers
A blue screen for an inaccessible website following reports of a major global outage on July 19.
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US federal agencies were among those reeling from a massive technology outage Friday after a flawed software update by CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. disrupted global computer networks.
Like employees around the world, some staff at the FBI and Department of Justice were met with a Windows error screen — dubbed “the blue screen of death” — when they tried to sign in to their computers Friday morning.