Late last week, millions of Windows PCs running CrowdStrike’s cyberattack protection software around the world experienced an outage. After investigating, CrowdStrike said the outage was caused by a bug in software testing that failed to properly test an update that was being rolled out to millions of devices. reports Edition of The Verge.
The company’s statement says that the unfortunate update was tested on March 5, but the error in the update was not noticed due to a bug in the diagnostic software.
“Due to a bug in the content validator, one of the two template samples passed validation despite containing problematic data,” CrowdStrike said in a statement.
At the same time, CrowdStrike has pledged to test updates to its software more thoroughly in the future and roll out packages gradually to prevent a repeat of the incident that occurred a few days ago.
According to calculations by insurance company Parametrix, the largest American companies will lose $5.4 billion due to a Windows failure last Friday.
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