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CrowdStrike executive apologizes to U.S. Congress for July global tech outage

A Crowdstrike office is shown in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Friday, July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Haven Daley) A Crowdstrike office is shown in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Friday, July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
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An executive at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike apologized in testimony to Congress for sparking a global technology outage over the summer.

鈥淲e let our customers down,鈥 said Adam Meyers, who leads CrowdStrike's threat intelligence division, in a hearing before a U.S. House cybersecurity subcommittee Tuesday.

Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off a global tech outage in July that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers.

鈥淲e鈥檙e deeply sorry and we are determined to prevent this from ever happening again,鈥 Meyers told lawmakers.

CrowdStrike's faulty software update crashed about 8.5 million computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system.

Meyers said he wanted to 鈥渦nderscore that this was not a cyberattack鈥 but was, instead, caused by a faulty 鈥渞apid-response content update鈥 focused on addressing new threats. The company has since bolstered its content update procedures, he said.

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