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Why didn't Crowdstrike get sued or go bankrupt after starting BSOD day? (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 month ago by GatoEscobar@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I would honestly think freezing airports, hospitals and other services for days would cause a lot of legal trouble.

At least that's what would happen if an experienced hacker did the same thing.

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[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 125 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These kinds of discussions are between corporations who have defined SLA's that specify things like reliability, uptime, etc. It's likely this outage breached this agreement so the lawyers of the companies are discussing internally and behind closed doors. This kind of thing doesn't get reported on in general.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And it might be years before the full fallout is fully litigated.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 15 points 1 month ago

The gears of justice grind slowly but finely.