Services begin slow recovery after faulty software update causes global IT crash

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Crowdstrike's CEO George Kurtz apologised for the chaos and said the company had issued a fix but warned it could be "some time" before all systems were running normally.

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00:00Businesses and services around the world have slowly started to recover after a massive

00:07IT outage affected computer systems from Thursday into Friday. Airlines, banks and hospitals

00:14were among the hardest hit after the cyber security firm CrowdStrike released a faulty

00:19software update, which caused computers operating Microsoft Windows to crash. The system crash

00:26caused chaos across Germany's healthcare sectors, with the main university hospitals

00:31in Kiel and Lubeck having to cancel all non-emergency operations. Some airline services are also

00:38beginning to return to normal after the cancellation of thousands of flights, although operators

00:43expect delays and cancellations to continue through the weekend. Airports in Poland issued

00:49an appeal to passengers to verify the status of their flights and to arrive three hours

00:54before the scheduled departure time. And although Greece was largely unaffected by the software

01:01bug, there were flight delays and long queues at the country's bigger airports.

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