So everyone, understandably, is on guard. And it didn’t help that the voucher code in the email sent to many partners stopped working.
A CrowdStrike spokesperson confirmed the emails with the $10 vouchers were legitimate, adding that “Uber flagged it as fraud because of high usage rates.”
What about the customers?
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.
07/22/2024 10:22:54 AM PDT
· 33 of 51 ShadowAce
to dayglored; miliantnutcase
I don't know if Linux allows the Linux CrowdStrike agent enough privilege to actually panic the kernel.
I would doubt it. However, without knowing the details of the agent, it's hard to say. User-space programs rarely, if ever, have that kind of access to the kernel.