Music producers have been hit as part of a mass global IT outage that has left airlines, banks and businesses around the world scrambling to respond.
Popular digital audio workstations (DAWs) BandLab and FL Studio are among those affected, with users reporting widespread downtime over the last 24 hours while accessing the platforms and their various services.
According to the FL Studio subreddit, Image-Line’s (the makers of FL Studio) servers have come under a DDoS Attack as of 17 July.
“If you are getting errors from Image-Line’s servers, this is why. You haven’t been singled out or blocked, this is just a side effect of the DDoS Attack. There is nothing consumers can do at the moment other than to wait,” says the post. Meanwhile, users can follow FL Studio’s social media accounts for the latest updates.
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As for BandLab, the cloud-based music creation and collaboration platform earlier today announced that its cloud service provider is back up and running, and that its servers have been restored. [Editor’s note: MusicTech and BandLab are both part of Caldecott Music Group.]
BBC reports that the disruptions are related to issues at cybersecurity software firm CrowdStrike, which are affecting Microsoft’s Windows operating system. The company claims that a “defect” in one of its content updates is to blame.
“This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” says CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz.
