CrowdStrike says it’s not to blame for Delta’s days-long outage
CrowdStrike refutes Delta Air Lines’ allegations that the cybersecurity firm is to blame for a dayslong flight disruption following last month’s catastrophic system outage, saying that the airline rejected repeated offers to help restore impacted systems.
In an interview with CNBC last week, Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the outage cost the company $500 million after more than 6,000 flights were grounded, and that the airline has “no choice” but to seek legal compensation from CrowdStrike and Microsoft.
While the CrowdStrike issues impacted millions of Windows machines across multiple industries globally, Delta struggled to bring systems back online for several days longer than other affected airlines, and is currently being investigated...