Windsor police warned of long delays at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel and Ambassador Bridge early Friday, advising residents to avoid them.
But unlike the massive cyberattacks that have hobbled health care recently, Friday’s disruption was not the result of an intentional attack, according to Austin-based CrowdStrike, the global cybersecurity company.
“This is not a security incident or cyberattack,” George Kurtz, CrowdStrike’s CEO said in a statement on social media early Friday morning. “The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website.”
The company called it a “defect found in a single content update,” and its website offered steps for technology repair.
In Michigan, the update glitch snarled phone lines at some local government offices and even the Michigan Department of Corrections, at least for a time. At the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency, it disabled online chats and phone calls with agents.
Meanwhile, flights were delayed across the U.S.
Delta Airlines posted on social media just before 9 a.m. Friday that some flights had resumed following the cyber outage and the company was offering a travel waiver to customers affected.
“The FAA is closely monitoring a technical issue impacting IT systems at U.S. airlines. Several airlines have requested FAA assistance with ground stops until the issue is resolved,” according to the agency’s social media post.