At that time, the CrowdStrike outage cost Delta Air Lines over $380 million in revenue because the outage affected all the computers with a Microsoft Windows operating system.
"Delta has specifically pled that if CrowdStrike had tested the July update on one computer before its deployment, the programming error would have been detected. As CrowdStrike has acknowledged, its president publicly stated CrowdStrike did something 'wrong,'" Judge Kelly Lee Ellerbe of the Fulton County Superior Court stated.
The Atlanta judge also allowed Delta to file a claim on CrowdStrike, in order to highlight the fact that the cybersecurity company has promised not to implement alternative ways of accessing the airline's computers.
Even more so, the CrowdStrike’s lawyer stated in his Monday statement, that it sees a higher chance that the Delta airline outage case will be somehow rejected by the judge, or in the best case will only receive a limited amount of compensation for the damages caused by the cybersecurity outage, because the Georgia state laws are pretty strict in situations like this.
We must mention that Delta tried to file legal action against the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike only three months after the faulty update that caused such damage to the airline company and more than 1.4 million passengers. But this lawsuit didn’t have a proper closure, because the company didn’t receive the compensation they required.
“CrowdStrike caused a global catastrophe because it cut corners, took shortcuts, and circumvented the very testing and certification processes it advertised, for its benefit and profit. If CrowdStrike had tested the Faulty Update on even one computer before deployment, the computer would have crashed.”, the airline company had stated at that time.
Now, Delta has another chance to receive compensation from CrowdStrike, but we must wait and see if Delta will try again to receive compensation!
Stay tuned for more updates!
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