CrowdStrike Hit With Consumer Class Action Over Software Outage

CrowdStrike Inc. is facing a proposed consumer class action in federal court brought by flight travelers affected by the company’s software outage, which spurred hundreds of flight delays and caused 8.5 million computers to crash.

CrowdStrike failed to “properly develop, test, and deploy” its Falcon cybersecurity software platform update to ensure it didn’t contain serious bugs or invalid data, according to the Aug. 5 proposed class action complaint filed with the US District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Lead plaintiffs Julio Del Rio, Jack Murphy, and Steven Bixby, who claim they faced interrupted travel and inconveniences due to ...