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There ’s a man in Florida right now who want to propose to his girlfriend while they ’re on a beach vacation . He could n’t get the engagement ring before he flew down from New England , but it did n’t seem like that big of an issue — his girl ’s girl Nicole was plan to fall in them in Florida to celebrate her mom ’s natal day , so he asked her to pick up the halo before her flight of steps .
In a pure humans , Nicole — who did n’t want her last name to be published in suit her mom finds out about the surprisal proposal — would vanish down to Florida on Friday and deliver the ring . Then , her mum and new fiancé would live blithely ever after . Buta global CrowdStrike outagehas turned this idyllic weekend into a secret plan point in a strange romantic comedy .
Around the populace , thousands of people like Nicole have had a wrench throw into their plans due to this outage , which knock out countless electronic computer running Microsoft Windows . In theaviation industryalone , more than 3,500 flight have been set off , with 31,000 more flight delayed , according to a tracker fromFlightAware .
“ We were a little spot nervous about [ transporting the engagement ring ] anyway , but then this just added a whole layer of complexness to it , ” Nicole told TechCrunch .
Now , the Delta flight she planned to take with her married man early Friday morning has been delayed until 3 p.m. ET at least .
“ I was texting [ my mom ] , and she was like ‘ Oh my god , it looks wild at the airports , do n’t follow , it ’s fine , just cancel the escape , ’ ” Nicole tell . “ And I ’m care , well , we can’tnotcome . ”
The outage was induce by a flaw in a CrowdStrike content update for Windows , CrowdStrike CEOGeorge Kurtz say . He has ruled out the possible action of a cyberattack or certificate incident , but the power of a faulty update to stimulate this much chaos has customers concerned . According to CrowdStrike ’s website , well-nigh 60 % of Fortune 500 companies and half of the Fortune 1,000 use CrowdStrike .
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The U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said on CNBC that even though the root of the issue has been key out , travelers will still experience ripple effects from the outage .
“ These flights , they incline so tightly , so back - to - back , that even after a root cause is address , you could still be feeling those impacts throughout the day , ” Buttigieg said .
For now , all that Nicole — and the thousands of other inconvenienced traveller — can do is wait .
“ Her natal day is tomorrow , and he was probably gon na propose then , ” she suppose . “ We have no idea . It ’s literally hour by hour at this point . ”
We ’ll update this story once we regain outif honest love can conquer technological failureshow the proposal went .
