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CrowdStrike says IT problems will take time to fix

The manual fix required means it could take days for big organisations to get back to normal.

Although there is now a software fix for the issue, the manual process required will take a huge amount of work to get computers back up and running, they said. While some security companies in the past have accidentally send out a dodgy software update, we’ve never seen one at this scale and this damaging. Famously the NHS was badly hit by it with huge disruption for days, affecting doctors, surgeries and hospitals around the country.

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