CrowdStrike boss apologises before US Congress for global IT outage

Adam Meyers, a senior vice president with the IT firm at the heart of July's mass outage, faced a grilling by US lawmakers.

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Adam Meyers, a senior executive at the company, appeared before a US congressional committee to answer questions about its faulty software update that disabled millions of PCs on 19 July.

The incident knocked payment services offline, grounded flights and forced some hospitals to cancel appointments and delay operations.

Mr Meyers said the firm was "deeply sorry" for the outage that affected millions of people and is "determined to prevent it from happening again".

CrowdStrike described the outage as the result of a “perfect storm”.

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