House Homeland Security leaders call for hearing with CrowdStrike CEO to address widespread IT outage

GOP leaders on the House Homeland Security Committee are asking CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify in front of the panel to provide details on a widespread IT outage impacting Microsoft systems around the world and any impacts on critical services.

“While we appreciate CrowdStrike’s response and coordination with stakeholders, we cannot ignore the magnitude of this incident, which some have claimed is the largest IT outage in history. In less than one day, we have seen major impacts to...