Joel Kinnaman opens up about 'worst' experience at LA airport amid global cyber outage
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: ‘Suicide Squad’ star Joel Kinnaman faced a traveling hiccup when he was stuck in an airport due to a global tech outage.
On Friday, July 19, the actor had to sleep on the ground at Los Angeles International Airport and spoke about the difficult night, calling his experience, "Like, the worst!"
Joel Kinnaman slept at LA airport due to technical outage
Joel Kinnaman shared that it almost took 24 hours for him to reach his destination from Atlanta to Los Angeles over the issue. He told TMZ that he didn’t even have a pillow, and used the floor as a mattress overnight like every other fellow traveler.
It was actually a software update by global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, one of the largest operators in the industry, which triggered systems issues that grounded flights, forced broadcasters off the air, and left customers without access to services such as healthcare or banking.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz updates on global cyber outage
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz informed on X (formerly Twitter) about the cyber outage, "Today was not a security or cyber incident. Our customers remain fully protected."
"We understand the gravity of the situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption. We are working with all impacted customers to ensure that systems are back up and they can deliver the services their customers are counting on," he added.
"As noted earlier, the issue has been identified and a fix has been deployed. There was an issue with a Falcon content update for Windows Hosts," he wrote.
Today was not a security or cyber incident. Our customers remain fully protected.
— George Kurtz (@George_Kurtz) July 19, 2024
We understand the gravity of the situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption. We are working with all impacted customers to ensure that systems are back up and they can…
The scale of the outage was immense and more details will be shared in time since it involved only systems that were running CrowdStrike software, per Ann Johnson, Microsoft's security and compliance business head.
"We have hundreds of engineers right now working directly with CrowdStrike to get customers back online," she shared per Reuters.
Public transit systems in the country were also allegedly temporarily affected, but mostly trains and buses were running as scheduled.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in Washington, DC, said its "website and some of our internal systems are currently down," but trip-planning applications were restored as of now.
