The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, posted on Friday that CrowdStrike has been “deleted from all our systems, so there is no expansion whatsoever.”
However, according to multiple sources cited by Business Insider, Tesla sent some of its night-shift employees at its factories in Austin, Texas and Sparks, Nevada home early after the outage resulted in error messages on some machines at the facility.
Notice to Tesla people
The automaker sent staff an alert on Friday morning that its systems were affected by a “Windows Host outage” across its entire IT platform.
A flaw caused by an update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor cybersecurity platform caused a major global outage for many Microsoft cloud services, affecting many industries. Services were disrupted at airlines, banks, hospitals and broadcasters.
“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a flaw found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Friday, adding that “this is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated, and a solution has been developed.”
Musk did not specify which of his companies had removed the cybersecurity software, but later posted on X that it was unfortunate that “many of our suppliers and logistics companies use (CrowdStrike).”
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