Delta Air Lines has hired prominent attorney David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft following an outage earlier this month that caused millions of computers to crash and led to thousands of flight cancellations. On July 19th, a software update from CrowdStrike led to a historic outage of Microsoft systems, knocking numerous industries offline. Airlines were hit hard, with Delta suffering widespread flight disruptions and service failures. The Department of Transportation is investigating Delta for thousands of flight cancellations, as the airline handles hundreds of thousands of refund and reimbursement requests.
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00:00It's Benzinga and here's what's on the block.
00:02Delta Airlines has hired prominent attorney David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike
00:07and Microsoft following an outage earlier this month that caused millions of computers
00:11to crash and led to thousands of flight cancellations.
00:15On July 19th, a software update from CrowdStrike led to a historic outage of Microsoft's systems,
00:20knocking numerous industries offline.
00:23Airlines were hit hard with Delta suffering widespread flight disruptions and service
00:27failures.
00:28The U.S. Department of Transportation is investigating Delta for thousands of flight cancellations
00:32as the airline handles hundreds of thousands of refund and reimbursement requests.
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