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Moody’s: Insurance losses from CrowdStrike outage will be driven by business interruption

Image of service disruptions being announced on billboards due to the CrowdStrike systems failure.
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CrowdStrike outage expected to spur demand for cyber insurance and drive further focus on systems failures.

The global IT outage stemming from a faulty CrowdStrike software update on July 19 will lead to cyber insurance losses primarily driven by business interruption claims, Moody’s Ratings said in a report released on Monday. A figure of $1.5 billion for insured losses has been floated.

Moody’s warned that determining

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