How a Software Update Caused a Global Meltdown

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — While the world has gotten used to warnings about cyberattacks and the vulnerability of technology, Friday brought a different wake-up call – a reminder that it doesn’t take an attacker to bring about a global meltdown.

A huge and widespread technology outage disrupted operations across multiple industries sopra several parts of the world Friday, grounding flights and impacting health care, banking, , and government services, sopra what some called a “historic” breakdown, and the “largest IT outage sopra history.”