How an international IT outage is affecting Middle Ga. governments, stores, gas stations

Several government agencies, stores and gas stations across Middle Georgia were disrupted by an international IT outage Friday. Some operations were shut down or slightly impacted after an error with a software update from Texas-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike interacted with Microsoft Windows, according to George Kurtz, the IT firm’s president and CEO. “This is not a security incident or cyber attack,” Kurtz said in an X post at 5:45 a.m. “The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed.” Macon-Bibb County government was slightly affected, but the...