CrowdStrike and Microsoft: What we know about global IT outage How a single IT update caused global havoc CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says© EPA ...

The global outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike on Friday affected some 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said in a blog post.

8.5 million devices were confirmed affected by the CrowdStrike outage, but Microsoft says that's only a subset.

Microsoft said Saturday it estimates that worldwide about 8.5 million computers were disabled by the outage caused by an update from the Texas based cyber security company, CrowdStrike on Friday.

(Reuters) - A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday.

Microsoft says about 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by the glitch Thousands of flights were cancelled and banking, healthcare and payment systems were affected by the mass outage ...

Cyber correspondent We can bring you some more from Microsoft's latest statement now. The 8.5 million Windows devices affected by the IT outage accounts for less than 1% of all machines worldwide.