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The global outage was caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike on Friday .
The update triggered a blue screen of death, bringing systems used by hospitals, airlines, banks and other major services temporarily to a standstill.
The total number of devices affected worked out to be “ less than one percent of all Windows machines”.
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