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Thousands fall for fake Crowdstrike worker's joke that he was responsible for biggest Microsoft outage

Thousands fall for fake Crowdstrike worker's joke that he was responsible for biggest Microsoft outage

Jul 21, 2024, at 02:29 am

Vincent Flibustier, a satirical writer who runs the Belgian parody news site Nordpresse, made a joke that he was a Crowdstrike employee and was behind the biggest Microsoft outage that brought Windows computers across the world to a standstill. Many online fell for his satire, believing he was responsible for the widespread Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) on their systems.