Worldwide IT Outage (Crowdstrike update)

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Just received this in a mailshot from an IT magazine I subscribe to. Probably not at all unexpected

CrowdStrike faces shareholder lawsuit after global IT failure

Investors are lining up a class action lawsuit amid allegations CrowdStrike misled them

www.itpro.com

Investors are lining up a class action lawsuit amid allegations CrowdStrike misled them

CrowdStrike faces lawsuits after it pushed out an update that sparked a global IT outage two weeks ago — the first of which comes from its own shareholders.

On July 19, CrowdStrike sent out a faulty update to its Falcon detection system, crashing 8.5 million devices running Microsoft Windows, wreaking havoc across media, airlines, banks and more.

CrowdStrike said on Monday that the majority of affected devices should be back to normal.
Yesterday, a group of shareholders filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in a US federal court, claiming that CrowdStrike misled them with regard to how software testing worked at the company, an allegation CrowdStrike denies.

That comes amid reports Delta is also considering seeking damages.

 

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I have seen news items (will try and post a link later) that Delta Airlines plan on suing CrowdStrike.

 

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I have seen news items (will try and post a link later) that Delta Airlines plan on suing CrowdStrike.

Yes, that is touched upon in the ITPro article, though not in any detail beyond a single line, so far as I have seen

 

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$500 million is the figure Delta are looking for.