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The cybersecurity firm involved in July’s global tech outage is firing back at Delta Air Lines after rumors the airline may be looking for compensation for damages.
Crowdstrike says Delta should stop blaming it for days of flight disruptions, denying that it was not responsible for the Atlanta-based airline’s losses.
Last week, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said that disruption to its operations cost the airline “half a billion dollars in five days.”
Part of that amount included “the tens of millions of dollars per day in compensation and hotels” for the five-day period, Bastian said.
The Atlanta-based airline hired prominent attorney David Boies, chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner, to pursue possible damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft, a source confirmed to FOX Business.
“We’re not looking to wipe them out, but we’re looking to make certain that we get compensated however they decide to for what they cost us,” he said during an appearance on CNBC.
CrowdStrike called the threat of …