Verkkothis week’s global software outage, immediately proclaimed as the biggest in history, was not caused by terrorists or a. i. Or rogue hackers demanding. Verkkonew york (ap) — much of the world faced online disarray friday as a widespread technology outage affected companies and services across. Verkkoreports follow widespread crashes of microsoft products. In what will go down as the most spectacular it failure the world has ever seen, a botched. Verkkothe widespread usage of crowdstrike’s software meant the outage penetrated numerous industries, including emergency communications,. Verkkomicrosoft has said it is taking mitigation action to deal with the lingering impact of the outage. Here is a summary of what we know so far.