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
When a major Windows update went haywire, causing a global tech disaster that disrupted flights, banks, and public services, China barely felt the impact. Thanks to its push for technology independence, China’s systems, including airports and payment networks, stayed mostly unaffected. Experts are using this incident to highlight the risks
A faulty update from CrowdStrike has caused widespread chaos, rendering hundreds of thousands of Windows computers and servers unusable across the globe, affecting major sectors like transport, broadcasting, finance, and retail. The glitch triggered an endless blue-screen-of-death loop, forcing IT teams to manually intervene, often needing to work through the
