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Take note.CrowdStrike Offers $10 Uber Eats Gift Card As Apology For Its Outage That Took Down 8.5M Windows Computers Globally: Some Users Report Their Vouchers Being Canceled - Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ:CRWD)
CrowdStrike Inc, the cybersecurity firm behind last week's global computer crash, is reportedly offering a $10 Uber Eats gift card to its partners as an apology.www.benzinga.com
Delta Air Lines on Friday filed a lawsuit against CrowdStrike in Georgia, accusing the security software vendor of breach of contract and negligence after an outage in July that brought down millions of computers and prompted 7,000 flight cancelations.
Other airlines recovered more quickly than Atlanta-based Delta, which said the incident reduced revenue by $380 million and brought $170 million in costs. The flawed software update affected computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
Days after the outage, Delta hired David Boies of law firm Boies Schiller Flexner to seek damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft. Delta asked for damages to cover its losses, along with litigation costs and punitive damages.
“CrowdStrike caused a global catastrophe because it cut corners, took shortcuts, and circumvented the very testing and certification processes it advertised, for its own benefit and profit,” Delta said in its complaint. “If CrowdStrike had tested the Faulty Update on even one computer before deployment, the computer would have crashed.”
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