[_carbyau_]

Definitively no. It was not a hack at all.

It was misconfigured software running inside the kernel.

The issue was this misconfiguration was "urgently pushed" from Crowdstrike and depending on who you believe it overrode customer testing policies.

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So a bunch of Linux systems were compromised or a bunch of Widows?

[zanecodes]

Nothing was compromised. A bunch of Windows systems were unable to boot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_ou...

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So a bunch of windows systems experienced a denial of service?