 Sirin Martin, former head of national cybersecurity for Great Britain's intelligence agency, said the scale of the problem was huge. The global tech outage affected hundreds of different sectors internationally, including Australian media, banks and government, U.S. airlines, Spanish airports, New Zealand and British media outlets, just to name a few. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz apologized for the global tech failure that disrupted millions of people's lives depending on tech and vowing to work with his customers until they get all their operations back online.