CrowdStrike CEO Warns of Hacking Threat as Outage Persists

The CrowdStrike glitch that caused outages for millions of users of Microsoft Windows devices last week continued to roil industries and snarl global air travel. Around 8.5 million devices were impacted by the outage, CrowdStrike said in a statement, adding that it had brought a significant number back online. A file named “crowdstrike-hotfix.zip” was being distributed that included malware enabling hackers to remotely control or monitor a user’s device, CrowdStrike said in a blog post.