CrowdStrike offers $10 apology gift cards after global tech outage
(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 […]
Delta could take $500M profit hit after Crowdstrike outage: analyst
Wall Street analysts say last week’s global CrowdStrike outage could take a $500 million hit to Delta Air Lines’ current quarter profits. Citi Research aviation analyst Steven Trent slashed his third-quarter profit forecast for the Atlanta-based airline by more than $500 million due to the meltdown, which is still causing flight delays and cancellations this […]
Delta cancellations, delays from IT outage should end by Thursday: CEO
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Wednesday that flight cancellations and delays caused by a major IT outage would continue into Thursday. Thousands of Delta Air Lines flights have been canceled or delayed since a global computer outage caused by security software CrowdStrike last Friday brought much of the airline industry to a halt. […]
Delta meltdown probed by feds as airline struggles days after global outage
The Transportation Department said Tuesday it was opening an investigation into Delta Air Lines after the company canceled more than 5,000 flights since Friday as it struggles to recover from a global cyber outage that has disrupted airlines around the world. While other airlines have been able to resume normal operations, Delta continues to cancel […]
Republicans question CrowdStrike outage impact on Arizona election systems
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is questioning local election officials in Arizona about how last week’s CrowdStrike outage affected voting centers in the state. The RNC, the Arizona Republican Party and the Trump campaign’s election integrity division I sent a letter “We are visiting Arizona counties to ask for an explanation of whether CrowdStrike’s global […]
U.S. Officials Investigating Delta Air Lines in Wake of Massive CrowdStrike IT Outage
Government authorities are investigating Delta Airlines following the recent CrowdStrike IT outage which caused massive disruption to the airline industry and other industries around the world. US Department of Transportation investigating Delta after flight cancellations, delays, Spectrum News 1 report on tuesday. In a social media post on Tuesday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said: Said“U.S. […]
Delta cancels whopping 700 flights on Monday in wake of outage
Delta Air Lines continued to struggle to restore operations on Monday, three days after a global cyber outage disrupted flights around the world and stranded thousands of passengers across the country. The Atlanta-based airline canceled 828 flights, about 21% of its total scheduled flights, as of 4:15 p.m. ET on Monday. Flight AwareThis accounted for […]
House Republicans call on CrowdStrike CEO to testify about global outage
House Republicans are calling on CrowdStrike’s CEO to testify at a congressional hearing on the global technology outage that affected flights and businesses around the world on Friday. Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) I sent a letter On Monday, it called on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to appear before the committee […]
Delta cancels nearly 700 more flights in wake of massive IT outage
Delta Air Lines is struggling to recover from a major technical outage that first froze air traffic across the nation on Friday, cancelling or delaying more than 1,100 flights on Monday. The airline canceled about 690 flights and delayed about 420 on Monday. Tracking service FlightAwareThis comes a day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized […]
CrowdStrike shares continue to tumble after causing global outage
CrowdStrike shares plunged 13% on Monday, extending losses as Wall Street analysts downgraded the company’s shares due to concerns about the economic impact of last week’s global cyber outage. A faulty update to CrowdStrike’s security software crashed computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system and disrupted internet services around the world, affecting a wide range of […]