After a disastrous outage left millions of Microsoft customers with dreaded blue screens and canceled and delayed thousands of flights, Delta Airlines has reportedly hired a big-name lawyer to seek compensation from CrowdStrike.
CNBC is reporting that Delta has hired attorney David Boies, 83, to represent the company in seeking damages after the July 19 CrowdStrike update caused widespread outages on Microsoft-run devices and internal issues at Delta.
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The update specifically affected a crew-tracking tool, which made it difficult for the airline to handle business as usual, said Delta CEO Ed Bastian.
“While our initial efforts to stabilize the operations were difficult and frustratingly
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