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CrowdStrike has taken a lot of flak over the <\/a> that brought much of the planet’s computer systems to a halt last month. One thing that the company isn’t <\/a> for though is <\/a>.<\/p>\n Delta CEO Ed Bastian <\/a> the company had “no choice” but to seek damages. The airline canceled more than 5,000 flights and said it was looking at a cost of over $500 million in lost revenue and compensation to passengers.<\/p>\n New: CrowdStrike accuses Delta of creating a \u201cmisleading narrative that CrowdStrike is responsible for Delta\u2019s IT decisions and response to the outage.\u201d Letter from CrowdStrike\u2019s outside counsel: pic.twitter.com\/OMD3iY6U9M<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 David Slotnick (@David_Slotnick) August 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n However, CrowdStrike claims it offered Delta assistance several times only to be rebuffed. “CrowdStrike worked tirelessly to help its customers <\/a> and resume services to their customers,” CrowdStrike lawyer Michael Carlinsky <\/a> to his counterpart at Delta. “Within hours of the incident, CrowdStrike reached out to Delta to offer assistance and ensure Delta was aware of an available remediation. Additionally, CrowdStrike’s CEO personally reached out to Delta’s CEO to offer onsite assistance, but received no response.”<\/p>\n Carlinsky goes on to state that if Delta does pursue legal action, it will have to explain “why Delta’s competitors, facing similar challenges, all restored operations much faster” and why it rejected free onsite help from CrowdStrike technicians “who assisted many other customers to restore operations much more quickly than Delta.” The lawyer adds that CrowdStrike’s liability is contractually capped “in the single-digit millions.”<\/p>\n\n