CrowdStrike Apologizes with Unusable Gift Cards

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company responsible for a massive global outage affecting 8.5 million Windows PCs, has issued $10 Uber Eats gift cards to partners as an apology. The outage, caused by a buggy update to its Falcon software, disrupted multiple industries including airlines, banks, and hospitals. However, many recipients found the gift cards unusable as Uber flagged them as fraudulent due to high usage rates. CrowdStrike has committed to improving its update processes to prevent future incidents and has detailed these measures in a preliminary post-incident review. The company's CEO is also expected to testify before Congress regarding the outage. Social media users have criticized the gesture, calling it inadequate given the scale of the disruption.