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The company behind a global IT outage which knocked hundreds of millions of computers offline, caused travel chaos and crippled healthcare systems have offered their partners £7.75 gift cards to say ‘sorry’.

The meltdown chaos comes after the world’s biggest IT disaster struck, with thousands of Brits stranded abroad, left without prescriptions or access to the GP

On Friday, cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said a fix for the issue affecting Windows machines had been issued but the knock-on effects continued to be felt this weekend

CrowdStrike has issued a statement on the global IT outage - and confirmed that a ’defect’ in their cybersecurity technology was the cause of issues which shut down banks, airports and TV stations