Delta Sues CrowdStrike Over Software Update That Prompted Mass Flight Disruptions

October 28, 2024

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Delta Air Lines on Friday sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike in a Georgia state court after a global outage in July caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3 million customers and cost the carrier more than $500 million. Delta's lawsuit filed in Fulton County Superior Court called the faulty software update from CrowdStrike "catastrophic" and said the firm "forced untested and faulty updates to its customers, causing more than 8.5 million Microsoft Windows-based computers around the world to crash." The July 19 incident led to worldwide flight cancellations and hit indu...