Some Atlanta Businesses, Hotels Back to Normal After Global IT Outage
Monday, July 22nd, 2024
While mass flight cancellations continued to cause headaches for thousands of passengers at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Atlanta hotels, businesses and tourist attractions disrupted by a global technology outage on Friday appeared to be returning to normal Saturday morning.
A faulty security update pushed out by the cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike in the wee hours of Friday morning was responsible for the global meltdown, which crippled the Microsoft Windows systems that countless industries and government agencies rely on. CrowdStrike said in a statement it was “deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption” and deployed a fix, which by Saturday morning appeared to have resolved problems for many customers.
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