CrowdStrike, the diversified cybersecurity platform, experienced a major outage today, impacting companies globally. The outage resulted from an issue with its latest update, and CrowdStrike is currently rolling back that update worldwide.

The outage caused widespread technical issues worldwide, with reports of laptops running Microsoft’s Windows operating system showing the "blue screen of death" error screen. It is unclear if this outage was linked to an earlier Microsoft cloud services outage.

The outage affected companies across various industries, including airlines, broadcasters, telecom firms, and banks. The issue was also reported to have caused delays at airports worldwide, grounded planes, and disrupted systems at companies like Telstra and NBC Universal.