The last time you heard about an Apple problem was years ago
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian in an interview with CNBC said that the July 19th outage caused by CrowdStrike update cost his company $5 million in five days. Among the costs Bastian said, Delta incurred were more than 40,000 servers that “we had to physically touch and reset” as well as compensation payments to travellers left in the lurch.
Widespread Microsoft downtime is disrupting flights and banking
Airlines, banks and government agencies in Europe were affected by a computer outage on Friday. Several airlines said they were experiencing disruption across their network, which is out of their control. US-based cybersecurity company CrowdStrike said that the outages were caused by a bug in its Falcon Sensor platform, adding it was “actively working with customers whose screens were impacted”.