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House Committee Calls on CrowdStrike CEO to Testify on Global IT Outage Affecting 8.5 Million Devices

Jul 22, 2024, 11:14 PM

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee has called on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify regarding a global IT outage that occurred last Friday. The outage, caused by a defective software update from CrowdStrike, led to widespread disruptions including the grounding of flights, banking system failures, hospital system outages, and affected approximately 8.5 million Windows devices with Blue Screen of Death errors. The committee seeks to understand the cause of the outage and the measures being taken to prevent future occurrences. Chairman Mark Green has requested Kurtz to commit to a public testimony by Wednesday. Republican representatives are also involved in this call for testimony.