some major Tech outages in recent Years Part One Number One crowd strike Microsoft on July 18th 2024 8.5 million Windows devices got affected by the blue screen of death halting Airlines Banks hospitals communication and government agencies it is the largest IT outage in history with companies already reporting more than $ billion in direct losses number two Facebook or Meta Meta owns social media platforms Facebook WhatsApp and instram went dark for 6 hours on October 4th 2021 affecting more than 10 million users worldwide and resulting in a loss of 7 billion for the company number three Sony PlayStation in April 2011 the PlayStation network was hacked and over 77 million accounts and their personal details got exposed Sony reported an estimated loss of $170 million and was forced to turn off the PlayStation Network for 23 days