🔴🌎 This morning saw the largest IT disruption in history, causing outages around the world.

A global IT outage caused by an issue with cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike $CRWD has disrupted flights, banks, retailers, stock exchanges, 911 call centers and media outlets. Experts say this could be one of the biggest IT failures in modern history.

Bloomberg reported that CrowdStrike warned customers that its Falcon Sensor threat monitoring product was the source of the chaos, causing Microsoft's Windows operating system to crash. There was no mention of what triggered the issue, and there were reports of outages in the Azure cloud and Microsoft's 365 Office software.

"We are aware of an issue affecting Windows devices due to an update to a third-party software platform," Microsoft said in a statement, adding, "We anticipate a resolution coming soon."