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House Committee Calls on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to Testify on Friday’s Global Outage

Jul 22, 2024, 09:49 PM

The House Oversight Committee received a briefing from Microsoft on Friday regarding a massive system collapse and is scheduling briefings with CrowdStrike and CISA. Republican representatives and the House Homeland Security Committee have called on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify before Congress about the historic global outage that grounded planes and disrupted business and government services. The committee chairs have requested that CrowdStrike schedule a hearing by Wednesday, emphasizing the need for Americans to understand the incident and the mitigation steps CrowdStrike is taking. The outage, which occurred on Friday, was triggered by a botched update from CrowdStrike, according to a letter shared with The Washington Post.