Jeanne Shaheen asks Senate committee to hold hearing on Russian NSA hack

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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D.N.H., has asked the Senate Armed Services Committee to hold a hearing to examine a Thursday report that Russian government hackers used Kaspersky Lab antivirus software installed on a National Security Agency contractor’s home computer to steal information about America’s foreign computer networks and cyber defense systems.

Shaheen, a committee member, sent a letter to Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., on Friday asking that the matter be investigated.

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