Global IT outage live updates: Microsoft-CrowdStrike blackout
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FTC Chair Lina Khan connects outage to competition and ‘fragile systems’
FTC Chair Lina Khan weighed in on the ongoing CrowdStrike outage in a series of posts on X on Friday. Without mentioning CrowdStrike or Microsoft, she appeared to blame the outage on concentrated market power, which creates “fragile systems,” she wrote.
“Concentrating production can concentrate risk, so that a single natural disaster or disruption has cascading effects,” Khan wrote in the series of posts.
Khan did not announce an FTC investigation of the incident, but she linked to unrelated past actions she has taken, including opening up a query on cloud computing companies, and seeking public comment on companies that frequently buy smaller competitors, like in the technology industry.
— Kif Leswing
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Amazon warehouses and internal software disrupted by outage
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Some Amazon warehouses in the U.S. were grappling with disruptions set off by the global IT outage.
Three Amazon warehouse staffers said the outage took down an app used by employees to manage their schedules and submit time off requests, called A to Z, early Friday morning, though it has since been restored in some areas. The employees asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the situation.
The outage also disrupted some Amazon employees’ ability to access an internal service called “Anytime Pay,” which allows staffers to withdraw earnings before their next paycheck. “Anytime Pay is unavailable due to a global outage impacting users to access internal IT services,” according to a notice on Amazon’s internal payroll site for warehouse staffers, which was viewed by CNBC.
At some sites, operations were briefly halted. An Amazon warehouse worker in South Carolina, who asked to remain anonymous, said their site passed the time by performing karaoke in exchange for “cola cash,” or credits that can be used to purchase snacks and drinks at the facility.
The disruptions also touched Amazon’s trucking operations. Truck drivers who use Relay, a platform that lets them book jobs moving Amazon cargo, said they were briefly unable to pick up loads at Amazon warehouses due to system issues.
“Everything was bluescreened,” said Dwight Evitt, a truck driver in San Marcos, Texas.
Representatives from Amazon didn’t respond to requests for comment.
— Annie Palmer
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CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz apologizes for global outage in blog post
George Kurtz, co-founder and chief executive officer of Crowdstrike Inc., speaks during the Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 8, 2017.
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CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz apologized in a blog post for the global outage Friday and reiterated that his company is working closely with impacted customers and partners to restore all systems.
Kurtz encouraged customers to “remain vigilant” in ensuring they engage with official CrowdStrike representatives as they seek support.
“We know that adversaries and bad actors will try to exploit events like this,” he wrote.
He added that the company’s blog and technical support portal will remain…
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