Delta Air Lines faced a colossal $500 million hit due to a major IT outage earlier this month that stranded thousands of passengers. The outage, caused by a flawed software update from CrowdStrike, led to the cancellation of over 4,000 flights and massive daily costs for compensation and hotels. The airline had to manually reset 40,000 servers and now plans to seek damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft. Delta, known for its top-notch service, is also dealing with a reputation blow and a federa...