Many passengers were left stranded at the international flights terminal at Don Mueang Airport following a Microsoft cloud service outage, which has impacted many businesses worldwide.
This outage was caused by a faulty update to the application and causes Windows computers to enter a reboot loop,” the update said. “This was not caused by a cyberattack, but rather a technical issue with the vendor”
The total blackout was caused by an update to Crowdstrike’s ‘Falcon Sensor’ software which crashed, crippling all Windows run systems.
CrowdStrike, a U.S. firm that advertises being used by over half of Fortune 500 companies, said one of its recent content updates had a defect that impacted Microsoft’s Windows Operating System, adding the incident was “not a security incident or cyberattack.”
As a result, the operating system sent servers, desktop PCs, laptops and corporate computer terminals into a death spiral of reboots and the so-called ‘blue screen of death’, with the error message: ‘DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER’.
As a result, the airline had to resort to a manual system, causing delays for passengers.