Electric vehicle manufacturer You're here temporarily halted production on lines at some of its manufacturing facilities on Friday after an unprecedented IT outage impacted global operations due to system issues at a cybersecurity company. Crowd strike.
According to the correspondence obtained by CNBC, Tesla IT teams informed employees that there was a “Windows host outage” and that various systems were affected, including “servers, laptops, and manufacturing devices.” Tesla IT teams informed employees that they might see a “Windows host outage” and that various systems were affected, including “servers, laptops, and manufacturing devices.”blue screen” on their various devices.
Tesla CEO Elon Muskwhich also owns the social media platform X, posted several complaints about CrowdStrike outages on its account, which has more than 190 million followers, throughout the morning.
Two Tesla employees who spoke to CNBC but asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the company said some production lines were slow to start Friday morning, and others were temporarily shut down in California and Nevada. They also said managers were asking some workers to prepare for canceled shifts or go home early.
Business InsiderThe Journal of the American Journal of Computer Science, which first reported the computer memo, wrote that workers at Tesla's Texas assembly plant were also sent home overnight in response to the outages.
As a key supplier to Tesla, Microsoftworked to restore its applications and services Friday morning, CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a statement on X that a CrowdStrike update on Thursday impacted global IT systems.
In response to Nadella on X, Musk wrote that the outages had caused a “crisis” in the automotive supply chain, adding, “We just removed CrowdStrike from all our systems, so no deployment at all.” Employees confirmed that Tesla had been using CrowdStrike since Friday.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for further information.
