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.”
Because my expertise is Windows and that’s the environment I get paid to administer. We have Linux servers too but they didn’t have any of these problems. BUT they have had their own issues in the past and finding Linux system admins isn’t really as easy as you might expect. Running your own Linux system at home is not the same as running a 175TB CEPH Node