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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.
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