CrowdStrike sent its partners $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology for mass IT outage

Wed, 07/24/2024 - 19:10

Blue screen of death — CrowdStrike said a "defect" in an update for Windows was responsible for the mass tech outage last week.
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CrowdStrike sent its partners a $10 UberEats gift card after last week's global IT outage.
The company said Uber flagged the gift cards as fraud because of high user rates.
A Cloud reseller shared screenshots of the gift card and CrowdStrike email with Business Insider.

CrowdStrike, the cyber security firm responsible for last week's global tech outage, is thanking its partners for their extra work in the aftermath of the crash with $10 Uber Eats gift cards.