WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� An executive at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike apologized in testimony to Congress for sparking a global technology outage over the summer.
鈥淲e let our customers down,鈥� said Adam Meyers, who leads CrowdStrike's threat intelligence division, in a hearing before a U.S. House cybersecurity subcommittee Tuesday.
Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike has in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off a in July that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers.
鈥淲e鈥檙e deeply sorry and we are determined to prevent this from ever happening again,鈥� Meyers told lawmakers.
CrowdStrike's faulty software update crashed about 8.5 million computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Meyers said he wanted to 鈥渦nderscore that this was not a cyberattack鈥� but was, instead, caused by a faulty 鈥渞apid-response content update鈥� focused on addressing new threats. The company has since bolstered its content update procedures, he said.
The Associated Press
