By Patrick Hill & Camilla Elliot

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Published 19 February 2025

Overview

The outage of global cyber security firm CrowdStrike’s systems on 19 July 2024 sent ripples through industries worldwide. Airlines were unable to check in passengers, hospitals left unable to carry out appointments and banks unable to pay customers. The UK National Cyber Security Centre was forced to issue an urgent warning that opportunistic malicious actors were seeking to take advantage of the outage.

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This article was originally published in January 2025 and the information contained within was accurate as of that time.

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