Windows TCO: CrowdStrike, Delta, and More
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Associated Press ☛ Delta sues cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike over tech outage
The airline is asking for compensation and punitive damages from the outage, which started with a faulty update sent to several million Microsoft computers. Delta said the outage crippled its operations for several days, costing more than $500 million in lost revenue and extra expenses.
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Reuters ☛ Delta sues CrowdStrike over software update that prompted mass flight disruptions
Delta's lawsuit filed in Fulton County Superior Court called the faulty software update from CrowdStrike "catastrophic" and said the firm "forced untested and faulty updates to its customers, causing more than 8.5 million Microsoft (MSFT.O) , opens new tab Windows-based computers around the world to crash." The July 19 incident led to worldwide flight cancellations and hit industries around the globe including banks, health care, media companies and hotel chains.
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CNBC ☛ Delta suit against CrowdStrike after IT outage caused cancellations
Days after the outage, Delta hired David Boies of law firm Boies Schiller Flexner to seek damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft
Delta asked for damages to cover its losses, along with litigation costs and punitive damages.
"CrowdStrike caused a global catastrophe because it cut corners, took shortcuts, and circumvented the very testing and certification processes it advertised, for its own benefit and profit," Delta said in its complaint. "If CrowdStrike had tested the Faulty Update on even one computer before deployment, the computer would have crashed."
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US News And World Report ☛ Delta Sues CrowdStrike Over Software Update That Prompted Mass Flight Disruptions
Delta said CrowdStrike is liable for over $500 million in out-of-pocket losses as well as for an unspecified amount of lost profits, expenditures, including attorneys’ fees and "reputational harm and future revenue loss."
The incident prompted the U.S. Transportation Department to open an investigation.
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The Record ☛ RansomHub gang allegedly behind attack on Mexican airport operator
Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte announced last Friday that a cyber incident forced its IT team to turn to backup systems in an effort to continue running the airports it controls across central and northern Mexico. Known colloquially as OMA, the company runs airports in Monterrey and other major Mexican cities, handling more than 19 million passengers so far this year.
On Thursday, the RansomHub operation claimed to be responsible for the incident, and threatened to leak 3 terabytes of stolen data if an undisclosed ransom is not paid. U.S. agencies warned of the group’s attacks in August, saying it was responsible for more than 210 incidents since emerging in February.
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The Record ☛ Change Healthcare says 100 million people impacted by February ransomware attack
The notice this week followed a decision by HHS in May to allow Change Healthcare to file breach notifications on behalf of the thousands of organizations impacted by the ransomware attack — which crippled the U.S. healthcare system for months due to the company’s pivotal role in the processing of payments and prescriptions.
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TechCrunch ☛ UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare [breach] affects over 100 million, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach
The ransomware attack and data breach at Change Healthcare stands as the largest known digital theft of U.S. medical records, and one of the biggest data breaches in living history. The ramifications for the millions of Americans whose private medical information was irretrievably stolen are likely to be life lasting.
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Bitdefender ☛ US offers $10 million bounty for members of Iranian [cracking] gang
The Iranian [crackers] are accused of launching malicious attacks against various vital parts of United States critical infrastructure, including water facilities, energy infrastructure, and manufacturing plants.
Shahid Hemmat has been linked, for instance, to the [crack] of a booster station at the Municipal Water Authority in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, in November 2023, where a pump on a supply-line providing drinking water to nearby towns was shut down.