(News Nation) — CrowdstrikeIt was first reported that the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers around the world last week is offering its partners $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology. Industry magazine TechCrunch.
in Email posted on social media platform XCrowdStrike reportedly said it was aware of the “additional work” that was caused by the July 19 crash.
The email, sent from an email address listed as CrowdStrike’s chief operating officer, Daniel Bernard, said the company expressed its “sincere gratitude and apologies for any inconvenience caused.”
“To say thank you, we’d like to buy you your next coffee or a late-night snack,” the email ended with a link to Uber Eats.
CrowdStrike later confirmed in a statement to Nexstar that it only sent gift cards to teammates and partners, not customers.
“CrowdStrike did not send gift cards to customers or clients,” the statement read. “We only sent gift cards to teammates and partners who have been assisting our customers through this situation.”
Engadget report Some users have been having trouble using gift cards on Uber Eats and appear to be seeing a message saying the offer has been revoked.
“Uber flagged this as fraudulent activity due to high usage rates,” CrowdStrike said in a statement.
of CrowdStrike is out Companies across a range of industries and across the globe were affected, including banks, airlines, railroads, hospitals, 911 services and some broadcast news businesses. Software bugs A flaw in the content verification system caused the outage.
“Again, we are aware of the impact of this incident and we deeply apologize. We appreciate the support and assistance we received from our customers and industry partners following the release of the faulty content update. We understand what happened and how to prevent something like this from happening again.” CrowdStrike said in its X post:formerly Twitter.
