“In less than one day, we have seen major impacts to key functions of the global economy, including aviation, healthcare, banking, media and emergency services,” committee chair Mark Green, a Tennessee Republican; and Representative Andrew Garbarino, a New York Republican and chairman of the panel’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, wrote in a letter to Kurtz on Monday.
A US House committee called on the chief executive officer of CrowdStrike Holdings to testify on a defective software update that caused widespread global outages.
The House Committee on Homeland Security requested the appearance of CEO George Kurtz, and it asked CrowdStrike to promptly schedule a date.
