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CrowdStrike is an American cybersecurity firm based out of Austin, Texas. It was founded by George Kurtz in 2012 through a $26 million Series A round.

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., the company linked to a global outage that affected airlines, emergency services and various businesses from banks to hospitals, is an American cybersecurity technology company based out of Austin, Texas.

George Kurtz said in a post on X on Friday morning that the outage was "not a security incident of cyberattack." It was a single "defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts" that was responsible for the massive computer outage, according to Kurtz. TECH OUTAGE HITS 911, HOSPITALS, BANKS AND EXCHANGES: LIVE UPDATES Kurtz said that the issue was "identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed.

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