A worldwide cyber outage affected computer systems across the U.S. and around the world, with impacts on airlines, banks and other systems. The issue was apparently triggered by a software update from the CrowdStrike cybersecurity firm. The CEO of CrowdStrike said they were “actively working with customers” globally and that a fix was being deployed. CEO George Kurtz added that “this is not a security incident or a cyberattack.” In Wichita, the outage affected records systems for the Police Department, along with other systems. Sedgwick County closed its tag offices because of the outage. The county treasurer’s office is open, but it was only able to process payments by check or cash for customers with their bill in hand. Treasure Brandi Baily said the motor vehicle system is on the state software and that was still down Friday morning, so the tag offices were closed. The county’s chief information officer, Mike Elpers, said the software update had a negative impact on all Windows devices. He said about 75 to 80 percent of the county’s work stations received the update. Elpers said his staff worked throughout the night late Thursday into Friday morning to get systems back online, and he said they were making good progress.
Source: 101.3 KFDI
