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GP services in England and Northern Ireland faced huge disruption following IT problems caused by a software update by CrowdStrike
GPs couldn’t treat patients, people were stranded as planes couldn’t get off the ground, and small businesses lost thousands in sales.
Two months on from the global IT outage on 19 July, the full impact is still only now becoming apparent.
A rogue software update by the US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike crippled up to eight and half million computers using Microsoft systems around the world.
Adam Meyers – a senior executive at CrowdStrike – will testify at the US Congress on Tuesday to explain what happened and how the company is going to prevent another disaster.
Dr David Wrigley, a GP for the past 22 years, tells the BBC that in the most serious cases, it resulted in possible delays for cancer treatments.
“It was a very difficult period of…
