CrowdStrike Executive to Testify on IT Outage Impacting Global Services
Adam Meyers will address Congress on the software update failure that disrupted critical sectors worldwide, including aviation and healthcare.
- The July 19 incident affected 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices, causing widespread service interruptions.
- Delta Air Lines reported 7,000 flight cancellations and significant financial losses due to the outage.
- The House Homeland Security Committee seeks details on how the failure occurred and measures to prevent future incidents.
- CrowdStrike faces legal action and governmental inquiries following the software update malfunction.
- The testimony aims to restore confidence in IT systems essential to daily services.