MW CrowdStrike stock could see its worst day ever after worldwide outages
By Steve Goldstein
CrowdStrike Holdings may be looking at worst single-day stock-market performance ever, after a computer outage worldwide was pinned on the cybersecurity company.
In premarket trade on Friday, CrowdStrike $(CRWD)$ stock lost 20%.
According to FactSet data, CrowdStrike has never dropped more than 17% in a single session.
A widespread outage hitting Microsoft-powered computers has disrupted flights and impacted banks, publishers and scores of other companies. Governments and airlines attributed the outages to CrowdStrike.
Related: Airlines grounded, companies experiencing outages tied to CrowdStrike issue
Reports linked the problems to what's called CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor platform.
-Steve Goldstein
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