Crowdstrike

[Popeye_Card]

[expletive] off.

Thank god airports have bars.

[Jocephus]

oh damn, sorry to hear that, that sucks

i heard about this this morning before work and how they had a fix in (allegedly?) so i just assumed things would start going back to normal but throughout the day i kept hearing it was going on...our IT dept even sent out a message about it (we don't use it so i got to work ). i cant help but wonder if a coder put like, a 4 instead of a 1.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

oh damn, sorry to hear that, that sucks

i heard about this this morning before work and how they had a fix in (allegedly?) so i just assumed things would start going back to normal but throughout the day i kept hearing it was going on...our IT dept even sent out a message about it (we don't use it so i got to work ). i cant help but wonder if a coder put like, a 4 instead of a 1.

A work colleague was affected. My work laptop has been fine so far. But corp IT sent out a note about it and they've been working all day on it.

This is a prelude to when a bad actor successfully puts a dagger into the too-centralized too-cloud-dependent internet and we all wake up to bricks for our connected devices. I'd put money on it happening in the next 10 years.

[Jocephus]

CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowd ... or-outage/

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one.

On Tuesday, a source told TechCrunch that they received an email from CrowdStrike offering them the gift card because the company recognizes “the additional work that the July 19 incident has caused.”

“And for that, we send our heartfelt thanks and apologies for the inconvenience,” the email read, according to a screenshot shared by the source. The same email was also posted on X by someone else. “To express our gratitude, your next cup of coffee or late night snack is on us!”

On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled. When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”

CrowdStrike spokesperson Kevin Benacci confirmed to TechCrunch that the company sent the gift cards.

“We did send these to our teammates and partners who have been helping customers through this situation. Uber flagged it as fraud because of high usage rates,” Benacci said in an email.

[CardsofSTL]

I don't know if it is related but I have had three spectrum cable outages this week. It is normally very reliable. Sucks when you basically use the internet for everything nowadays.

[Leroy]

If they only had life lock.