Impacted Air Travelers Sue CrowdStrike For Causing ‘Catastrophic’ Outage

(August 8, 2024, 11:15 AM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — A group of airplane travelers filed a putative class complaint in Texas federal court against tech company CrowdStrike Inc. accusing it of harming them by failing to properly test its cybersecurity software before issuing an update that allegedly caused 8.5 million computers and devices to go offline, including at airports, delaying their flights in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws....