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Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled.

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one.

On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled. When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”

On Friday, CrowdStrike released a faulty update that rendered around 8.5 million Windows devices unusable, according to Microsoft. The update caused the affected computers to be stuck at the infamous “blue screen of death,” or BSOD, a bright blue error screen with a message that is shown when Windows crashes or cannot load because of a critical software failure.

The outage caused delays at airports in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dubai, and London, and across the United States. It also caused several hospitals to halt surgeries, and paralyzed countless businesses all over the world.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•5 months ago

      So a simple power outage or broken networking hardware would be enough to kill people in your hospital?…

      • @WombleEnglish
        4•5 months ago

        There’s good reason that hospitals have their own backup emergency generators. A blackout absolutely would kill people.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•5 months ago

          Yes, but they typically don’t just run the whole building, only vital stuff and emergency lighting.

    • @SchmidtGeneticsEnglish
      0•5 months ago

      If the system being cripple cost lives, that’s a failure of your procedures, systems, training, management and backups.

      It shouldn’t take hours to override the system, why wasn’t someone on staff who was trained on the system? Why weren’t paper charts available sooner? That sounds more like negligence than a system causing an issue. If someone on staff was trained, it should have taken minutes to fix the issue.

      If a crash like this cost lives, that’s your own negligence, not a computer glitches.