Universities, colleges among those affected by Crowdstrike outage

Cloud systems, libraries, and exams at universities and colleges around the world were disrupted by the Crowdstrike Windows outage on Friday. The outage—which was caused by a defective software update—affected numerous industries around the world, including healthcare, transportation, and retail. In Canada, Athabasca University assured students whose ProctorU exams were disrupted by the outage that they would be given additional time to complete their exams, while Durham College told CP24 some of their systems had been impacted. Times Higher Ed reports that several university libraries in the UK experienced outages, while US universities reported issues for their IT departments.