Nationwide computer outage

[nzoomed]

looking that way isn't it? the odd thing about that one are the reports of blue screens and startup failures, that would suggest either coincidence or malware of some description...

Yes I was looking at that.
Looks like its MS windows thats affected, wasnt there a major exploit discovered in windows where Microsoft was warning everyone to patch through windows update recently?
It might have been this:
https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-w...exploited/

Edit: looks like crowdstrike update may be the cause