A UK hospital is battling what it calls a critical incident as the ongoing global IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike update affects its Varian system.
Crowdstruck (Windows Outage) – computer file
This will turn out to be the biggest cyber incident ever in terms of impact, just a spoiler, because recovery is so difficult
Varian Medical Systems is responsible for delivering radiotherapy treatments to cancer patients and due to the global outage, treatments were briefly suspended this morning.
An update posted at 1045 UTC said radiotherapy services were restored and afternoon meetings would continue as planned, but warned further disruptions could continue into next week.
