CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage

TechCrunch reports that after a faulty CrowdStrike update on July 19 caused widespread Windows BSOD outages affecting roughly 8.5 million devices and disrupting airports, hospitals, and businesses, the company emailed partners $10 Uber Eats gift cards—many of which were later canceled by Uber due to flagged high usage. CrowdStrike confirmed the gesture, attributed the incident to a validation bug that let problematic content pass, and issued leadership apologies while continuing to publish remediation updates.