CrowdStrike outage Blue Screen of Death photos from around the world
Blue screens of death in Indira Gandhi International Airport. | Photo by Kabir Jhangiani/NurPhoto via Getty Images Photos of a world seeing blue due to the massive outage affecting Microsoft Windows systems on Friday. A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is responsible for a global IT outage leading to some truly unique imagery of blue screens. From the screens in Times Square in New York to airports and banks globally, this outage has everyone seeing blue. If you have a photo of a blue screen of death and want to share, please reach out! We’ll be updating this post as images come in. Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images In Times Square in New York City, screens displayed the blue screen of death while some screens went completely black. Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images Photo by Diego Radames/Anadolu via Getty Images Passengers are forced to wait at Madrid-Barajas International Airport in Madrid, Spain. Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP via Getty Images Unusable self-checkout terminals of a supermarket in Sydney, Australia. Blue screens at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. More blue screens at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Sipa USA via AP Computer screens show an error at an Amtrak waiting area at Back Bay station in Boston, MA. Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images A large screen in the Dubai Metro show the blue screen of death. Photo by Amarjeet Kumar Singh/Anadolu via Getty Images Airports in New Delhi, India also hit by the outage. Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images A error blue screen is displayed at a currency exchange store at the Hong Kong International Airport. SLC, Utah. Terminal 1 pic.twitter.com/kMRXbXbnQC— Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) July 19, 2024 Everywhere you look: blue screens of death pic.twitter.com/Jh1fdVflTD— Morning Brew ☕️ (@MorningBrew) July 19, 2024
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Photos of a world seeing blue due to the massive outage affecting Microsoft Windows systems on Friday.
A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is responsible for a global IT outage leading to some truly unique imagery of blue screens. From the screens in Times Square in New York to airports and banks globally, this outage has everyone seeing blue.
If you have a photo of a blue screen of death and want to share, please reach out! We’ll be updating this post as images come in.
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SLC, Utah. Terminal 1 pic.twitter.com/kMRXbXbnQC— Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) July 19, 2024
Everywhere you look: blue screens of death pic.twitter.com/Jh1fdVflTD— Morning Brew ☕️ (@MorningBrew) July 19, 2024