CrowdStrike by Riley Withdraws from VIR Weekend

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CrowdStrike by Riley has withdrawn from this weekend’s SRO America event at Virginia International Raceway following the cybersecurity firm’s global outage on Friday morning.

George Kurtz and co-driver Colin Braun, who sit second in the Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS Pro-Am class points standings, took part in Thursday’s test sessions at the 3.27-mile circuit in Alton, Va., prior to the outage.

The withdrawal, confirmed in a stewards’ bulletin published on the Fanatec GT America website, also includes Kurtz’s Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo entry in GT America powered by AWS.

Kurtz, the co-founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, said in a statement on social media on Friday morning that the company is “actively working” with customers impacted by a defect that was found in a single content update for Windows hosts only, with a fix already having been deployed.

The outage, which has affected numerous businesses worldwide, is not believed to have impacted SRO America’s operations at VIR.

“Today was not a security or cyber incident,” Kurtz added in a post. “Our customers remain fully protected.

“We understand the gravity of the situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption.

“We are working with all impacted customers to ensure that systems are back up and they can deliver the services their customers are counting on.”

John Dagys

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