A CrowdStrike spokesperson confirmed the emails with the $10 vouchers were legitimate, adding that “Uber flagged it as fraud because of high usage rates.”
As all of this was unraveling, some details got lost in translation about who was receiving the $10 vouchers. Many people incorrectly believed CrowdStrike was compensating customers for all their troubles.
That would be a pittance compared to what customers lost. The outage may have cost Fortune 500 companies as much as $5.4 billion in revenues and gross profit, according to an analysis from Parametrix, a cloud monitoring and insurance firm.
But it’s not clear if CrowdStrike will pay them back. The company hasn’t commented on any financial remediation efforts with customers. But experts told my colleague Chris Isidore that there will be demands for remuneration and very possibly lawsuits.
CrowdStrike has, however, apologized to them. But the software giant has yet to dole out a nickel to them for their troubles — not even a $10 Uber Eats voucher.
You you can sue CS all you want, and the best you'll get is your money back.
I heard that Microsoft is blaming the EU’s competition regime for encouraging customers to install a security program that does not work as well as Windows Defender. Any comments from experts?
Did DEI crash 8.5M computers? CrowdStrike probed for sidelining its White, male coders
CrowdStrike hit with complaint over 'unlawful' diversity-hiring initiatives
Elon Musk has suggested that DEI hiring at CrowdStrike led to the damaging outages
The cybersecurity firm promotes staff based on sex and skin color, not merit
The cybersecurity firm behind the software update that crashed millions of computers globally has been hit with a complaint over sidelining its white, male employees under a diversity-hiring scheme.A conservative legal action group alleges that CrowdStrike favors women and minorities for jobs and promotions in coding, programming and other areas through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13667847/Did-DEI-crash-8-5M-computers-CrowdStrike-probed-sidelining-white-male-coders.html
How many pajeets did it take to negatively affect millions of people, millions of systems, and cost billions of dollars?
I worked at a company where a handful of Exempt IT employees had worked tons of OT on a project & when it ended, they gave out $5 vouchers for use in the company cafeteria.
Yeah, no. $5.4 billion is my lawyer's territory. Expect a letter from him.