Long Beach airport, port largely unaffected by global tech outage
The outage was caused by a defective software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.
A defective software update that crippled businesses around the world Friday, including banks, retail and airports in what some think could be the largest tech outage in history, largely spared Long Beach's airport and port, according to city officials.
Austin-based cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, which is widely used by businesses and government agencies, pushed a Microsoft update that caused the issue, including grounding flights around the world for hours.
In a Friday morning post on X, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz stressed that the incident “was not a cyber incident. Our customers remain fully protected.”
