CrowdStrike CEO Clarifies Downtime Cause: No Security Breach, Stock Drops 15%

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has addressed recent downtime issues experienced by the cybersecurity firm, reassuring customers that the incident was neither a security breach nor a cyberattack. In a post on the X social platform, Kurtz explained that the downtime was caused by a defect in a content update affecting Windows hosts. He emphasized that Mac and Linux hosts were not impacted by this defect. Kurtz elaborated that the issue stemmed from a specific content update for Windows hosts. He stressed that it was not related to any security incident or cyberattack. The defect has been identified, isolated, and fixed.