CrowdStrike hit by class action lawsuit from shareholders over massive outage
![An employee walks past rebooting arrivals and departures screens at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Friday, July 19, 2024, in Phoenix. An overnight outage was blamed on a software update that cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike sent to Microsoft computers of its corporate customers including many airlines. A man in a blue polo shirt and black pants, with a backpack straps over his shoulders, walks down an airport corridor next to a big blue screen with white text on it.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7269776.1721417175!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/crowdstrike-worldwide-outage-airlines.jpg)
CrowdStrike has been sued by shareholders who said the cybersecurity company defrauded them by concealing how its inadequate software testing could cause the global outage on July 19 that crashed more than eight million computers.