BERLIN, July 19 (Reuters) - Critical infrastructure in

Germany has been affected by a global I.T. outage that was

triggered by a problem at cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike ( CRWD )

, an interior ministry spokesperson said on Friday.

There is currently no indication of a cyber attack, the

spokesperson added.

The German government defines critical infrastructure to

encompass areas such as energy, transport and

telecommunications.

(Reporting by Friederike Heine

Editing by Ludwig Burger

)