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CrowdStrike Outage Impacted U.S. Government Agencies

Although the outage was brief in some instances, multiple U.S. agencies confirmed they were impacted by the global Windows outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update.
IRS building.
Image: Carol M. Highsmith.

Multiple U.S. government agencies were impacted by the faulty CrowdStrike software update that has caused mass disruption around the world, spokespeople for various agencies told 404 Media.

While the outages have disrupted airports, hospitals, public transit, and many private companies, the same issue has also had an effect on the IRS and other agencies, those people said. In some cases the disruption has been short lived, though.

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