Insurers brace for global IT outage claims
Last week’s global IT outage is expected to lead to insurance claims, with companies across the sector closely monitoring its impact.
On Friday (19 July), a global IT outage was triggered by a faulty software update from cyber security firm CrowdStrike.
The outage affected millions of devices running the Windows operating system
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