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CrowdStrike blames bug for allowing bad data upload that led to global tech crash
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CrowdStrike on Wednesday released more details about the cause of Friday's technology outage, which crippled computers around the world and disrupted airlines, hospitals, banks and other businesses.
The cybersecurity company blamed a bug in a program that's meant to catch issues before software updates are uploaded to customers. That glitch blocked "problematic content data" from being flagged before it was sent to clients, CrowdStrike said in an update on its website.
The resulting bad data led to a critical error that "could not be gracefully handled, resulting in a Windows operating system crash (BSOD)," Crowdstrike wrote, referring to the "blue screen of death" that appeared on the screens of affected computers.
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