The chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability summoned the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce on Wednesday for a briefing over cyber-attacks and data theft by the Chinese regime to these American institutions, according to the Committee’s letters.
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), along with the chairwoman of the cybersecurity subcommittee Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and chairman of the National Security subcommittee Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), wrote a letter (pdf) to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, calling for a briefing on the impact and ramifications of the Chinese state’s cyberattacks on their institutions. The two letters were similar.
