CrowdStrike Offers $10 Gift Card as Apology for Shutting Down Basically the Whole Earth

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Free Snacks CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm behind last week's epic global computer meltdown — according to some, the largest IT outage in history — is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as a form of apology.

Adding insult to injury, at least some of the gift cards were "canceled by the issuing party" and were "no longer valid," according to TechCrunch.

As a result, Windows machines started crashing and experiencing blue screens of death, bringing down entire airlines, airports, hospitals, banks, and broadcasters.