“It's already Friday here,” wrote one Facebook user on the morning of July 19, posting a photo of several non-functional laptops in his company's conference room. Each computer displayed the famous BSoD, or in computer jargon, the “Blue Screen of Death,” informing about a critical Windows error.
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“I don't think it's too early to say this: This will be the biggest IT outage in history,” cybersecurity consultant Troy Hunt wrote on social media. “This is basically what we all feared with Y2K. [tzw. pluskwa milenijna, która w 2000 r. miała przynieść katastrofalne skutki w systemach komputerowych – red.]only this time it actually happened.”