Crowdstrike, Microsoft could get sued over global IT outage that grounded flights

The global outage of Microsoft Windows PCs last month due to a faulty Crowdstrike update continues to have repercussions as Delta Airlines is now mulling legal action against the two tech companies.

Ed Bastian, the CEO of the US-based airlines, said that they are looking to recover their losses caused by the outage, according to a report by CNBC. On July 18, Windows PC systems started crashing and it later emerged that the probable root cause was a botched update issued by cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. The fallout from the outage was massive as banks, hospitals, news outlets, restaurants, and several other businesses across the world were impacted.