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CrowdStrike are an antivirus software provider.
They released an update which caused an error in a core Windows file that prevented a machine running CrowdStrike and Windows from booting up.
Every affected machine needed to be fixed individually (by deleting the problematic file).
Given the thousands and thousands of affected machines, turmoil ensued.
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