Security News > 2024 > July > Delta Air Lines dials up Microsoft's legal nemesis over CrowdStrike losses
Delta Air Lines lost hundreds of millions of dollars due to the CrowdStrike outage earlier this month - and it has hired a high-powered law firm to claw some of those lost funds back, potentially from the Falcon maker and Microsoft itself.
CNBC broke the news yesterday that Delta had hired famed lawyer David Boies to look into what the airline could do to recoup as much as an estimated $500 million in operational losses due to the July 19 CrowdStrike outage.
The Register has received confirmation from our sources that Delta has hired Boies's firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, to look into their recovery options - which potentially includes Microsoft and Crowdstrike.
There doesn't appear to have been a lawsuit filed against CrowdStrike and Microsoft by Delta, but it makes sense that the company would hire such a high-profile lawyer in the matter.
Absent of Delta making its CrowdStrike agreement public, it's unknown if Delta has better terms to support its claims.
Delta is likely trying anything it can do right now to get government regulators off its case, and shifting blame onto CrowdStrike and Microsoft is likely first on its list of strategies.
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