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President Joe Biden has been briefed on a global IT outage caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike ($CRWD). The White House is in regular contact with CrowdStrike's executive leadership and is tracking progress on resolving the issue. The administration has offered government support to the affected entities and is engaged across various sectors to provide updates throughout the day. The outage has disrupted operations across multiple industries, but it is not believed to be a cyber attack. Secretary Pete discussed the implications of this global IT blackout on digital infrastructure.
The White House is in contact with cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike's leadership and has offered U.S. government support after a global tech outage caused disruptions across several key services, according to a senior U.S. administration official. https://t.co/sMTGpPW87I
"Any transportation system today– it is more digitized, it is more dependent on software than it was a few years ago... as these vulnerabilities open up, we've got to make sure that players are on top of them," @SecretaryPete tells @MorganLBrennan on today's global IT outage. https://t.co/iMiBIxtbgE
JUST IN: The White House says that President Biden has been briefed on the IT outage and that CrowdStrike has been offered government support