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US government closed investigation into Delta over CrowdStrike outage nearly two years ago

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Martin Holland

21d ago· 2 min readdeNews
technologycybersecuritybusinessaviation

Summary

The article reports that the US government has already closed its investigation into Delta Air Lines regarding the massive disruptions caused by CrowdStrike's faulty software update on July 19, 2024. The update, distributed to all endpoint security agents using CrowdStrike's Falcon EDR system, crashed millions of Windows computers globally, causing significant operational problems at airports. Many systems required manual on-site intervention to restore functionality.

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bskyUS government closed investigation into Delta over CrowdStrike outage nearly two years agoheise.de

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Am 19. Juli 2024 hatte das Unternehmen ein fehlerhaftes Update an alle Endpoint-Security-Agenten mit CrowdStrikes EDR-System Falcon verteilt, das Millionen von Windows-Rechnern zum Absturz brachte.
Erschwerend kam hinzu, dass viele Systeme dabei so nachhaltig beeinträchtigt wurden, dass ein manueller Eingriff vor Ort erforderlich war, um sie wieder benutzbar zu machen.
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Vor fast zwei Jahren hat ein fehlerhaftes Update von CrowdStrike zu massiven Problemen an Flughäfen gesorgt. Ermittlungen gegen Delta wurden bereits eingestellt.

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