Delta Can Sue CrowdStrike Over Outage That Grounded Thousands of Flights, Judge Says

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has tried to limit the fallout from its global outage last summer, which wreaked havoc on airlines, financial services, and numerous other industries. When Delta Air Lines filed a lawsuit to recoup its losses, CrowdStrike tried having the case dismissed. But now a federal judge has given Delta the okay to proceed with its lawsuit over the outage, pointing out that CrowdStrike’s own president admitted that it did something “horribly wrong”. The July 2024 screwup, which has since been described as the largest IT outage in history, affected computers running on Microsoft Windows. Per CrowdStrike, it was caused by a faulty software update that passed the company’s validation checks “despite containing problematic content data.” Once the update went through, millions of devices worldwide displayed the infamous Blue Screen of Death. CrowdStrike’s outage is estimated to have cost U.S. Fortune 500 Companies $5.4 billion. But amongst airline companies, Delta was ... Read full article.