Crowdstrike says the global IT outage was not caused by a cyberattack

• Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz said a mass outage was not caused by a cyberattack.
• He said customers were affected "by a defect found in a single content update for Windows."
• The issue was "identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed," Kurtz said.

Crowdstrike, the firm linked to the major global IT outage, has ruled out a cyberattack.

In a statement on X, CEO George Kurtz said the outage was "not a security incident or cyberattack."

He said the company was "actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted."