The global tech outage impacted airlines, emergency services, banks, hospitals and other businesses. Delta took nearly a week to recover from the incident.
CrowdStrike fired back at Delta after the airline’s CEO lashed out at the cybersecurity firm for computer problems that he said cost Delta $500 million. CrowdStrike claimed Delta would have to explain its own IT shortcomings in any litigation, and that it ignored CrowdStrike’s offers of assistance.
In a letter sent to Delta on Sunday, CrowdStrike’s lawyers pushed back against claims that it was solely responsible for the thousands of flights the airline canceled following the outage.
CrowdStrike has informed Delta Air Lines that the cybersecurity company doesn't believe it's responsible for the carrier's handling of last month's global IT outage following a software update that led Delta to cancel thousands of flights.
Cybersecurity software company CrowdStrike is firing back at Delta Air Lines. The companies are arguing over who’s to blame for Delta canceling thousands of flights after a global technology outage last month.