01:35 PM EDT, 07/19/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Tesla (TSLA) halted some of its production lines Friday morning amid global IT chaos triggered by Microsoft ( MSFT ) and CrowdStrike ( CRWD ) outages, Business Insider reported.

The glitches did not appear to impact every production line, but the carmaker sent some of its factory workers home early during the night shift at its Austin, Texas, and Sparks, Nevada, factories, Business Insider reported Friday, citing three sources with knowledge of the issue.

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