The outage disrupted internet services, affecting 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices.<\/p>\n
Adam Meyers, senior vice president for counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, said the company released a content configuration update for its Falcon Sensor security software that resulted in system crashes worldwide.<\/p>\n
“We are deeply sorry this happened and we are determined to prevent this from happening again,” Mr Meyers said.<\/p>\n
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“We have undertaken a full review of our systems and begun implementing plans to bolster our content update procedures so that we emerge from this experience as a stronger company.”<\/p>\n
The committee members pressed Mr Meyers on how the incident occurred in the first place, with legislators likening its impact to that of a well-planned, sophisticated cyber attack, rather than because of a “mistake” inside CrowdStrike’s software.<\/p>\n
He said the issue was not the result of a cyberattack or prompted by AI.<\/p>\n
Giving evidence to US legislators, Mr Meyers said: “We appreciate the incredible round-the-clock efforts that our customers and partners who, working alongside our teams, mobilised immediately to restore systems.<\/p>\n
“We were able to bring many customers back online within hours. I can assure that we continue to approach this with a great sense of urgency.”<\/p>\n
CrowdStrike said an “undetected error” in a software update sparked the problem.<\/p>\n
A bug in the firm’s content validation system meant “problematic content data” was not spotted and then allowed to roll out to Microsoft Windows customers, causing the crash.<\/p>\n
Mr Meyers said the cybersecurity firm would continue to share “lessons learned” from the incident to ensure it did not happen again.<\/p>\n
CrowdStrike faces numerous lawsuits<\/strong><\/p>\nSome people said CrowdStrike didn’t face such an intense grilling by the committee as other tech executives have been subjected to in recent years.<\/p>\n
Instead, emphasis was placed on firms working with committees and government to prevent future incidents of a similar nature.<\/p>\n
However, CrowdStrike still faces lawsuits from people and businesses impacted by the outage – it has been sued by its own shareholders as well as by US aviation giant Delta Airlines after it cancelled thousands of flights because of the system shutdown.<\/p>\n
In the UK, the CrowdStrike outage left GPs unable to access systems that manage appointments or allow them to view patient records or send prescriptions to pharmacies – which were also widely impacted – forcing doctors to return to using pen and paper.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, flights were cancelled or delayed and passengers left stranded as airline systems were knocked offline or staff were forced to handwrite boarding passes and luggage tags.<\/p>\n
Many small businesses also reported a substantial impact on their income, with some saying their websites being knocked offline by the incident cost them hundreds or even thousands of pounds in sales.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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