Delta Plans Legal Action Amid $500 Million Hit From CrowdStrike Outage

That's according to a report Wednesday (July 31) from Bloomberg News, citing a statement from the airline that also says Delta has hired a law firm as it prepares to seek damages from the outage, which canceled thousands of flights earlier this month. The trouble began with a glitch in a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, leading to widespread outages of Microsoft's Windows systems around the world, including at several major corporations, leading to chaos at not only airports but banks and ...