CrowdStrike won a lawsuit connected to its infamous 2024 outage. The legal challenge blamed the outage on what it claimed was inadequate quality control on the part of the cybersecurity firm.

The class action lawsuit was filed almost a year ago in the jurisdiction of Texas by Thomas DiNapoli, the administrator of the $291.4 billion-worth New York State Common Retirement Fund. In it, the claimants accused CrowdStrike of misleading clients over its Falcon suite, adhering “to industry-standard testing and quality assurance requirements… [but] these representations were false, misleading, and omitted material facts.”

“A multitude of former CrowdStrike employees have recounted that the Company did not test its software updates in a pre-production environment, in contravention of basic industry standards,” the claimants added.

Judge Robert Pitman of the federal court in Austin, Texas, threw out the case for a lack of evidence behind these claims, unsatisfied that CrowdStrike had demonstrated fraudulent intent.

The CrowdStrike outage of 2024 affected more than eight million computers running Microsoft Windows, with worldwide financial damage estimated around the $10 billion mark. Industries ranging across air travel, finance, hospitals, and emergency and government services were caught up in the mayhem.

The New York State Common Retirement Fund lawsuit wasn’t the only lawsuit filed against CrowdStrike in the aftermath, with airline passengers filing a similar claim, which was also dismissed by Judge Pitman in June of last year.

That decision is currently being appealed against in New Orleans, while a separate suit from Delta Airlines – which lost around $500 million due in the outage – remains pending.