You don't wish this on anyone, neither the victims nor the wrongdoer

We were one of the companies affected by the Wannacry ransomware virus in 2017. It was one of the weekend staff who opened an email he wasn't supposed to. The memory is still fresh of all the problems the virus caused.

That time 300,000 computers in 150 countries were affected, the day before yesterday 8.5 million computers were damaged in CrowdStrike's IT crash. Reportedly 1% of all the world's Windows devices. 

Among those affected are airlines, airports, banks, companies, exchanges, payment systems, television broadcasts and many more. CrowdStrike is said to have identified and isolated the problem and that action has been taken. How long all the recovery work will take cannot be predicted because some systems do not automatically recover but require manual restarts, which means that problems are fixed at different speeds.

I highly doubt CrowdStrike will survive the probably astronomical damage likely to be required once all the recovery work is done.