CrowdStrike's latest recovery report now puts 97% of impacted Windows computers back online and operational nearly a week after the global IT outage that halted multiple tech infrastructures.
In a LinkedIn post on Thursday, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz reported that the company's recovery efforts have "enhanced" over the past few days as it deploys automatic recovery techniques and increased resources on customer support services.
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To customers still affected by the outage, Kurtz assured that "we will not rest until we achieve full recovery."
The CEO's statements came after reports indicated that CrowdStrike is facing challenges restoring the 8.5 million Windows devices impacted by its "flawed" security update last week.
CrowdStrike has since given $10 Uber Eats vouchers to affected sectors, although many institutions and businesses demand the company be liable for the damages.
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CrowdStrike Outage Costs Global IT Industry Billions of Dollars in Losses
Despite CrowdStrike and Microsoft's efforts to restore services, there is no denying that the global IT outage cost many IT infrastructures millions if not billions of dollars.
Digital insurance firm Parametrix earlier estimated that the outage likely cost the US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, around $5.4 billion in losses.
This estimate was noted even after Microsoft rolled out recovery tools to help affected businesses while CrowdStrike was still developing the "technical update" to fix the issue automatically rather than manually per device as some businesses did during the early hours of the outage.
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CrowdStrike, Microsoft Warns Against Bad Actors Exploiting IT Outage
While most services have already been restored, CrowdStrike and Microsoft continue to warn against bad actors who are taking advantage of the situation to target vulnerable networks.
So far, government agencies and companies have already disrupted several scam operations over the past few days, although no reports indicate of any cyberattack campaigns following the outage.
