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Schiff Wants Intelligence Community Briefing On FireEye Hack

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020

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Schiff Wants Intelligence Community Briefing On FireEye Hack

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Photo: House Office of Adam Schiff.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Tuesday evening said he has requested a briefing by U.S. intelligence agencies regarding FireEye’s [FEYE] disclosure earlier in the day that it had been hacked by a sophisticated nation-state threat actor who stole tools the company uses to test the security of its customers’ networks. Schiff wants the “relevant intelligence agencies to brief the committee in the coming days about this attack, any vulnerabilities that may arise from it, and actions to…

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