Delta Air Lines filed a lawsuit Friday in Georgia state court against cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike after a major software update in July caused a global computer crash that led to 7,000 flight cancellations.

The outage affected some 1.3 million Delta passengers over five days and cost the airline more than $500 million, including $380 in lost revenue and $170 million in operational costs.

The update affected computers worldwide running Microsoft Windows.

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