CrowdStrike outage: Texas Driver License Offices closed Friday [Video]

AUSTIN, Texas — Around the world on Friday, a variety of industries dealt with the fallout of a CrowdStrike outage that started Thursday night. 

CrowdStrike, an Austin-based cybersecurity company, provides anti-cyberattack services to Microsoft and other large companies. CrowdStrike is stressing that this incident was not a cyberattack and says the outages that shut down Microsoft-based computers were caused by a software issue. 

CrowdStrike sent an update Thursday night, but it accidentally included a bug in the code that caused millions of computers to be stuck in a cycle of restarting without being able to complete the process, causing error messages to appear on computers. The company has since deployed a fix so people can use their computers again.

The hours-long outage has had widespread impacts. Airlines had to cancel thousands of flights, some hospitals have reported disruptions and, in Travis County, tax offices had to …