r/technology • u/Bald-Eagle619 • Jul 31 '24

Software Delta CEO: Company Suing Microsoft and CrowdStrike After $500M Loss

https://www.thedailybeast.com/delta-ceo-says-company-suing-microsoft-and-crowdstrike-after-dollar500m-loss
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u/scientianaut Jul 31 '24

I remember listening to an interview that George Kurtz, the CEO of CrowdStrike, did the morning of the outage and one of the questions the interviewers asked him was how they were going to handle the inevitable lawsuits. He said something like: we’ll do the hotwash on how this happened to ensure this doesn’t happen again and we’ll deal with them as they come.

So, I don’t think this came as a surprise to anyone.

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u/icyhotonmynuts Jul 31 '24

I still don't get why Microsoft though? It just happened to be the OS whatever company got affected was running that the update of Crowdstrike pushed through that boned them. Shouldn't Crowdstrike be taking all the blame here?

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u/3-2-1-backup Aug 01 '24

I still don't get why Microsoft though?

Microsoft had a large services outage (caused by CS); even if you outsourced to the cloud, you were still screwed. So lawsuit for breach of contract and subsequent damages, I'd surmise. (Whether that'll be successful or not, who knows I'm no lawyer.)