Crowdstrike to blame for Capitec blackout

[Daniel Puchert]

What caused Capitec's total blackout

Capitec says its nationwide outage was the result of a global problem caused by cybersecurity platform provider Crowdstrike.

Crowdstrike confirmed the issue on Friday morning, saying a "content deployment" was responsible for sending Windows computers around the world into a dreaded Blue Screen of Death boot loop.

 

[gregmcc]

Boom. Another article. That's number 5 I think.

 

[Iamn0tageek]

What's this friggen R5 charge on my statement for this morning?

Description just says "Crowdstrike's fault"

 

[My_King]

Hosted on Azure?

Almost, same RCA

 

[UB40]

Boom. Another article. That's number 5 I think.

Nice break from the DSTV articles for a change

 

[s0lar]

All staff running windows had the same this morning. Teams and WhatsApp channels were chaos.

 

[Magandroid]

If this had happened to FNB they would have made you believe that it was just another Ebucks reward.

 

[Quicks]

What's this friggen R5 charge on my statement for this morning?

Description just says "Crowdstrike's fault"

You are paying for someone else's fck ups. Pretty much how the ANC works, you should be used to it by now.

 

[LCBXX]

This will help promote a cashless society.

 

[Pegging]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1814242557469024329

 

[SauRoNZA]

You know how someone here I think it's @epah always says they aren't a real bank?

Well running Windows on literally every single end-point kind of cements that right there and they are running around like headless chickens unable to fix it.

 

[Ockie]

You know how someone here I think it's @epah always says they aren't a real bank?

Well running Windows on literally every single end-point kind of cements that right there and they are running around like headless chickens unable to fix it.

They are up and running. There have been much longer outages on other banks.

 

[My_King]

This will help promote a cashless society.

+1

 

[LCBXX]

CrowdStrike wining-and-dining MS E5 customers with "Don't put all your security-eggs in 1 basket", only to fumble things completely.

 

[Ockie]

What's this friggen R5 charge on my statement for this morning?

Description just says "Crowdstrike's fault"

Not sure if serious, but checked mine and my accounts are fine and no funny charges on the app.

 

[UB40]

 

[Fairy Nuff]

I guess all of next weeks stories will be about Crappytech kissing Crowdstrike goodbye.

 

[hj007]

Stop autodeploying.
Cyber attacks are easy when you just need to get one bug into the code...

 

[Gordon_R]

It's a massive outage, not just one bank, or one industry, or one country:

CrowdStrike and Microsoft: What we know about global IT outage

A mass IT outage has caused chaos around the world, with major airlines among the victims.

www.bbc.com

 

[backstreetboy]

If this had happened to FNB they would have made you believe that it was just another Ebucks reward.

You know how someone here I think it's @epah always says they aren't a real bank?

Well running Windows on literally every single end-point kind of cements that right there and they are running around like headless chickens unable to fix it.

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