{"id":56706,"date":"2024-07-30T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/delta-air-lines-dials-up-microsofts-legal-nemesis-over-crowdstrike-losses\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T19:00:14","slug":"delta-air-lines-dials-up-microsofts-legal-nemesis-over-crowdstrike-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/delta-air-lines-dials-up-microsofts-legal-nemesis-over-crowdstrike-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines dials up Microsoft’s legal nemesis over CrowdStrike losses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delta Air Lines lost hundreds of millions of dollars due to the CrowdStrike outage earlier this month \u2013 and it has hired a high-powered law firm to claw some of those lost funds back, potentially from the Falcon maker and Microsoft itself.<\/p>\n

CNBC broke<\/a> the news yesterday that Delta had hired famed lawyer David Boies<\/a> to look into what the airline could do to recoup as much as an estimated<\/a> $500 million in operational losses due to the July 19 CrowdStrike outage<\/a>. Millions of Windows machines around the world were knocked offline due to what we now know was a bad Channel File update<\/a>, with Microsoft sharing some of the billions of dollars in blame<\/a> for the incident with CrowdStrike.<\/p>\n

For those who don’t recognize Boies’s name, you’ll likely be aware of his work \u2013 and so will Microsoft. Boies was appointed as special trial counsel<\/a> for the Department of Justice’s 1998 antitrust fight against the Windows maker<\/a>, and has represented Microsoft opponents in other cases<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n