House Homeland Security panel to hold hearing on impacts of SolarWinds hack

The House Homeland Security Committee is conducting a hearing Friday to examine the role of “private tech” in the SolarWinds hack and ongoing efforts to mitigate the massive data breach.

The committee is currently “engaged in an in-depth investigation with other key House Committees to learn more about this malicious Russian campaign,” House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said at a Feb. 10 hearing.

Thompson said “we know enough to begin asking difficult questions and start correcting course.”...