Microsoft outage disrupts banks, airlines, and stock exchange – full list of services impacted

A massive Microsoft outage has had a far-reaching impact on services across the globe and has disrupted operations in banks, stock exchanges and even the aviation sector. Approximately six hours after the outage was first reported, Microsoft tweeted, “Multiple services are continuing to see improvements in availability as our mitigation actions progress”.

The issue, related to Crowdstrike’s Falcon sensor, is causing Windows machines to crash with blue screen errors and get stuck in a recovery loop.