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CrowdStrike faces widespread lawsuits from a faulty software update that brought down Windows machines across the world in July.

I would honestly think freezing airports, hospitals and other services for days would cause a lot of legal trouble.

At least that’s what would happen if an experienced hacker did the same thing.

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    581·
    17 hours ago

    At least that’s what would happen if an experienced hacker did the same thing.

    If you ignore the context of a massive company doing an oopsie daisy and a malicious hacker intentionally trying to cause the same disruption, that makes sense. Fortunately, most people are aware of the difference.

    They will most likely either be sued or have financial repercussions, although there realy isn’t a replqcement waiting in the wings if they went down. Plus they have had a pretty solid reputation for years, so an occasional oopsie is going to happen and as long as it doesn’t happen repeatedly it is likely to be forgotten about in 6 months.

    Heck, I wasn’t even impacted because my work laptop was off and it was already sorted out before I turned it on that day.

    • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
      16·
      15 hours ago

      If I had to guess there would be, at the very least, some businesses that used their business continuity insurance.

      Those companies, after paying those claims, will probably be expecting reimbursement or preparing to sue crowdstrike to recoup those costs.

      • dave@feddit.ukEnglish
        8·
        8 hours ago

        And likely Crowdstrike will have their own insurance. At the end of the day, it’s just gamblers sitting at the table, moving the chips around.