Delta Air Lines vs. CrowdStrike Outage

SOURCE www.npr.org
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says CrowdStrike outage cost the airline $500 million, leading to over 5,000 flight cancellations. Delta is preparing for litigation against CrowdStrike.

Key Points

  • Massive CrowdStrike outage cost Delta Air Lines $500 million
  • Over 5,000 flights were canceled due to the outage
  • Delta is preparing for litigation against CrowdStrike
  • Delta had to manually reset 40,000 servers to recover