TEMPLE, Texas — Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple was among the thousands of businesses impacted by a worldwide Microsoft outage on Friday.
The outage was triggered by an update by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. It disrupted flights, banks, media outlets, and hospitals around the world.
Senior Marketing and Public Relations Consultant for Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple Christy Millweard sent 6 News a statement Friday morning about how BS&W was responding.
"Our priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of those we serve and our team members," the statement reads. "Patient care is safely continuing as we work through issues related to the technical disruption that is impacting computer systems across the globe."
Millward said more information would be released as it became available.
Airlines and airports in the United States, Europe, Australia, India and elsewhere were reporting problems, with some flights grounded. Retail outlets, banks, railway companies and hospitals in several parts of the world were also affected in what appeared to be an unprecedented internet disruption.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the outage was not a cyberattack in a post to X early Friday morning.
"This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed," the post reads.
6 News checked with several Central Texas emergency agencies, including the Killeen, Temple, Belton and Waco Police Departments. Each of them said the outage caused little to no impact.