Was the CrowdStrike global outage caused by hacking or otherwise malicious action?
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Resolves YES if someone, e.g. hackers, intentionally caused it, NO if it was an accident or mistake or similar.

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https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details/

Crowdstrike has yet to release a root-cause analysis or provide details on how this bad change was released.

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@reifiedbeans any new information?

Nothing concrete, but I find it very hard to believe that such an egregious error would have made it past guardrails at such a large company.

https://x.com/George_Kurtz/status/1814235001745027317

Retweeted by Crowdstrike official account too - https://x.com/CrowdStrike

"CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. ... This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed."

https://x.com/brody_n77/status/1814185935476863321

Also Director of Overwatch, Croudstrike - "There is a faulty channel file, so not quite an update." More confirmation of an internal issue.

https://x.com/Xaaavier_8613/status/1814192758560870430/photo/1

"Crowdstrike has identified a content deployment related to this issue and reverted those changes"

Seems like a pretty clear admission that it's not malicious.