Crowdstrike confirms that 97% of affected computers are back up and running

The CEO of Crowdstrike, the company behind the global IT outage, said 97% of the computers that were rendered inoperable were back up and running.

A week after the global computer outage that crippled millions of computers on Friday, July 19, things appear to be finally returning to normal. According to the head of Mass strikea professional cloud-based antivirus software, is the culprit behind the incident, with 97% of affected computers now up and running again.

“I want to report that over 97% of Windows sensors are back online as of July 25,” CEO George Kurtz announced on LinkedIn.

“targeted and effective response”

“To our customers who are still affected, know that we will not rest until we fully resolve the incident,” the president stressed. In fact, if the patch rolls out on July 19, the group’s employees will do so. always hard at work To try to solve problems.

“I am deeply sorry for the disruption caused by this outage and personally apologize to everyone affected. While I cannot promise perfection, I can promise a focused, effective and timely response,” George Kurtz added.

Meanwhile, Crowdstrike has provided details about the bug that caused the incident. In a preliminary report, the company says that an update containing problematic data was validated and deployed to devices due to a bug in the update validation software.

The result: More than 8.5 million devices were rendered inoperable. Many large organizations and companies were affected, including AirlinesHospitals, media or even hotels or their organization Paris 2024 Olympics.

the President of Crowdstrike He was At the invitation of the US CongressHe will have to explain to members of the Homeland Security Committee, especially about the lasting consequences of the collapse, which could cost several billion dollars.