Following its triggering of the greatest PC outage in history, estimated by Microsoft to have impacted 8.5 million Windows PCs on the day of reckoning and with early traces hitting Linux systems as far back as April, reports indicate that CrowdStrike is now compensating its partners for the damages done...with vouchers for $10 gift cards to be redeemed on UberEats.
Per a report from TechCrunch and corroborated by scattered Twitter reports, CrowdStrike's apology tour has gotten off to an already-controversial start, not the least of which because $10 doesn't feel like adequate compensation for the individual employees impacted by this outage, much less entire companies. Additional reports point toward some or all of the vouchers having already been canceled, with the message spat back to parties saying the gift card has "been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid."
