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CrowdStrike offered a $10 Uber Eats card to teammates and partners, but it got flagged for fraud

CrowdStrike offered some of its clients a voucher for Uber Eats to apologize for the global shutdown but some found the offer had been pulled when they tried to redeem it.

The cybersecurity company tried to apologize with an Uber Eats gift card but its roll out also ended in failure, according to a report from TechCrunch. The gift card was an attempt to apologize for the global shutdown that locked up computer systems for banks, hospitals, airlines and more and “the additional work that the July 19 incident has caused,” according to TechCrunch’s source who received the message. CrowdStrike blamed the global system outage on a bug in an update that contained “problematic data.” The bug forced machines running on Windows into a boot loop that caused mass delays at airports, delayed scheduled surgeries and other operations at hospitals and disruptions at banks and even the London Stock Exchange.

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