The European Commission’s spokesperson service said: “We are aware of the media reports on the cyber incidents that have affected various sectors in EU member states and worldwide.” It added that its own services were not affected.
Users on a subreddit (a forum-like thread on aggregation site Reddit) of cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike also flagged outages. After that, the Windows crashes were linked to Crowdstrike’s Falcon platform, which fends off cyberattacks.
Microsoft acknowledged that it experienced two nonrelated issues: one on its cloud platform Azure, and another related to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
“We are aware of [an] issue affecting a subset of customers,” it said in a statement shared with POLITICO on Azure. Separately, it also said to be “aware of an issue affecting Windows devices” due to a CrowdStrike update. “We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming.”
CrowdStrike said in a statement it was “actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted.”
“This is not a security incident or cyberattack,” the cybersecurity firm said. “The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed … We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels.”
