Bastian told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday that the carrier would seek damages from the disruptions, adding, "We have no choice."
  • Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the massive IT outage earlier this month that stranded thousands of customers will cost it $500 million.
  • The airline canceled more than 4,000 flights in the wake of the outage, which was caused by a botched CrowdStrike software update and took thousands of Microsoft systems around the world offline.
  • Bastian, speaking from Paris, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday that the carrier would seek damages from the disruptions, adding, “We have no choice.”
  • ricecake
    28·
    5 months ago

    Funny enough, crowdstrike on Linux had a very similar issue a few months back.

    • eyeon@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 months ago

      It’s similar. They did cause kernels to crash. But that’s because they hit and uncovered a bug in the ebpf sandboxing in the kernel, which has since been fixed

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 months ago

        Are they actually shipping kernel modules? Why is this needed to protect from whatever it is they supposedly protect from?