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

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.