Tesla halted some production lines due to global IT outage, Business Insider reports

:Tesla halted some manufacturing traces in Texas and Nevada due to the global IT outage, Commerce Insider reported on Friday, citing sources aware of the matter.

Tesla suggested its workers Friday morning that it is “currently experiencing an outage with Home windows hosts, servers, laptops and manufacturing devices where users are seeing a blue masks on their devices,” in line with an interior email reviewed by Reuters.

The tech outage crippled industries from hotfoot to finance before services and products started coming encourage online after hours of disruption due a vow material update by CrowdStrike for Microsoft Home windows hosts.

“We correct deleted Crowdstrike from all our programs, so no rollouts the least bit,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned in a post on social media platform X, without specifying which of his companies had taken action or elaborating on the affect of the outage.

“This gave a seizure to the automotive provide chain,” Musk mentioned in a reply to a post by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the outage.

The automaker despatched some manufacturing workers dwelling early for the length of the night shift at its Austin, Texas and Sparks, Nevada facilities, the Commerce Insider describe mentioned.

CrowdStrike mentioned it changed into working with customers impacted by a defect realized “in a single vow material update for Home windows hosts.”

Tesla did no longer without delay reply to a Reuters demand for commentary.