A defective software update by CrowdStrike disrupted critical services on 8.5 million computers, requiring manual fixes and causing the stock to plummet by nearly 30%.
Government regulators, including antitrust enforcers, are monitoring the situation to determine if action should be taken against CrowdStrike for the system-wide outage.
Chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, highlights how system-wide outages from single glitches harm industries and showcases the fragility of concentrated systems.
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