How the CrowdStrike outage carved out new opportunities for hackers

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After a harsh U.S. government report criticised Microsoft for letting Chinese hackers access top federal officials' inboxes last year, CrowdStrike used the report to push its cybersecurity services

CrowdStrike's bold claims backfired when a faulty patch released early Friday accidentally caused problems for Microsoft devices worldwide.

Microsoft reported that up to 8.5 million computers were affected, and the issue is still being fixed.

Unlike last year's Chinese email hack, which targeted specific federal inboxes, this outage was more widespread and had immediate effects.

Experts believe it may lead to future hacking problems and harm CrowdStrike’s reputation with federal regulators.

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