CrowdStrike offers $10 gift card apology for $5bn outage
undefined 30, 2024
CrowdStrike offered $10 Uber Eats gift cards to partners as an apology for a global outage that crashed millions of computers, causing over $5 billion in losses. The cyber security firm acknowledged the disruption and expressed gratitude via email. However, some gift cards were flagged as fraud by Uber Eats due to high usage rates. The outage, caused by a faulty update to CrowdStrike’s software, impacted around 8.5 million computers and severely disrupted various sectors, highlighting the risks of dependency on cloud services.
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