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The CrowdStrike outage caused chaos for business – could we see a class action?

  • Written by: Michael Adams, Professor of Corporate Law & Academic Director of UNE Sydney campus, University of New England

Until last Friday, many businesses hadn’t really dealt with anything quite like the speed and severity of the CrowdStrike IT outage.

Being forced to stop operations is costly. Some estimates put the damage bill from the outage at more than A$1 billion in Australia alone.

As they continue to tally the losses, it’s only natural that...

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