The Global CrowdStrike Outage Triggered a Surprise Return to Cash

The Global CrowdStrike Outage Triggered a Surprise Return to Cash

On Friday, when a CrowdStrike update caused millions of Microsoft systems to crash around the world, many businesses were faced with a choice: Go cash-only, or close until systems came back online. This quickly caused chaos in Australia, whose government has explicitly encouraged businesses to go cashless. Pictures posted on social media showed card-only self-checkout … Read more