On BBC news a few minutes ago, an expert did describe the problem as affecting Microsoft Azure cloud systems as well as Windows systems running Crowdstrike due to an "update gone wrong".
Well, in BBC’s live coverage, just minutes ago, their technology editor said:
“ There have been reports suggesting that a cybersecurity company called Crowdstrike, which produces antivirus software, issued a software update that has gone horribly wrong and is bricking Windows devices - prompting the so-called "blue screen of death" on PCs.
Now, whether these two issues are the same thing, or whether it's a perfect storm of two big things happening simultaneously - I don't yet know. It certainly sounds like it's going to be causing a lot of havoc.”
What two issues? Two major independent outages? This is seriously bad and purely speculative.
There was a different Azure and other MS services (including Office 365) outage earlier which is separate from the crowdstrike thing that started a few hours later.
