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'Ex-CrowdStrike employee' takes credit for Microsoft outage in viral satirical video

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz wrote, “The issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been deployed,” noting that a corrupted content update for Windows caused the breakdown. Social media was flooded with some users satirically claiming responsibility for the update. One such user, Vincent Flibustier, claimed to be a former CrowdStrike employee, he alleged on X that he had “pushed” the “little update” that led to the global Microsoft crash.