Mayor Wheeler declares state of emergency due to Microsoft outage
Local businesses are working to get back in working order following the overnight CrowdStrike outage.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Portland mayor Ted Wheeler declared a state of emergency Friday morning after a Microsoft outage.
The outage, which also caused flights around the world to be halted, was caused by a defect in a content update according to CrowdStrike, who provide cybersecurity for Microsoft Windows.
According to CrowdStrike, a fix has been released, but many local businesses are still feeling the burn.
According to the City of Portland, the outage affected the city's servers, data centers, and employee computers.
Local Providence hospitals lost access to health records overnight due to the issues, however as of Friday morning they have regained access the hospital said in a statement. Some of their workstations are still impacted.
Providence, like other organizations around the world, is impacted by the CrowdStrike outage. Our IT teams have been working overnight to respond to the issue and have restored key functionality in the Epic electronic health record so that nurses, physicians and other caregivers can access patient records and perform clinical documentation. However, other clinical applications and workstations continue to be impacted, and our IT teams are working to restore these services as soon as possible. Patient safety and access to care is always the top priority at Providence. We will provide updates as new information becomes available.
The outage also impacted Portland International Airport, knocking out some systems but they are back online as of Friday morning.
Nationally, hundreds of flights ended up being canceled and many at PDX were forced to wait while systems came back online.
One flyer at PDX told KOIN 6 that this was their first time flying alone and they ended up in this situation.
"This is actually my first time flying alone," they said. "My parents were like you got this. They believe in me. I was visiting a friend here for a week and now I am in this crazy mess."
As of 8 a.m., the FlyPDX site shows over 50 delays and 9 canceled flights across several airlines.
Stay tuned as we bring you updates to this story.