08:32 AM EDT, 07/23/2024 (MT Newswires) -- CrowdStrike Holdings ( CRWD ) Chief Executive George Kurtz was called on Monday to testify before the US House Committee on Homeland Security on a recent defective software update that led to widespread global outages.

"Recognizing that Americans will undoubtedly feel the lasting, real-world consequences of this incident, they deserve to know in detail how this incident happened and the mitigation steps CrowdStrike ( CRWD ) is taking," Committee Chair Mark Green, R-Tennessee, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee Chair Andrew Garbarino, R-New York, said in a letter to Kurtz dated Monday.

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