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On the 22nd, Mark Green, chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, and relevant officials sent a letter to George Kurtz, CEO of the U.S. security technology company CrowdStrike, requesting that CrowdStrike contact the relevant department of the committee before 17:00 on July 24 and arrange a hearing for public testimony on last week's global outage of Microsoft Windows system devices.

According to US media reports, CrowdStrike issued a statement on the 22nd saying that the company is actively contacting relevant congressional committees, but the statement did not indicate whether the company's CEO Kurtz would attend the hearing.

On the 19th, due to the release of a software update by Zhongji, Microsoft Windows and some of Microsoft's other applications and services experienced a large-scale outage, causing the aviation, railway, shipping, finance, medical, hotel and other industries in many countries to be unable to operate normally, and the work and life of many companies and individual users were seriously disrupted. (CCTV News)