In the early morning hours of a random summer Friday in July, IT systems around the globe began to experience widespread crashes.
Initial fears of a massive cyber or other malicious attack by a state-sponsored actor or other private party proved to be unfounded. Instead, the culprit was much more mundane — simple human error in what we now know was a single misconfigured update.
Originally published in Law360 - September 20. 2024.
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