The former New York governor, who has already testified behind closed doors to the Republican-led House panel investigating the coronavirus pandemic, has agreed to appear on Sept. 10.Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has agreed to testify publicly next week before a congressional subcommittee to face questions about the thousands of deaths that occurred in the state’s nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic.Mr. Cuomo is scheduled to testify at a hearing on Sept. 10, according to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.“Andrew Cuomo owes answers to the 15,000 families who lost loved ones in New York’s nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic,” Representative Brad Wenstrup, Republican of Ohio and the subcommittee’s chairman, said in a statement. “On Sept. 10, Americans will finally have the opportunity to hear directly from the governor about these potentially fatal nursing home policies.”It will be the second time in recent months that Mr. Cuomo will face questioning by House Republicans. After receiving a subpoena, he testified in June for seven hours behind closed doors.A transcript of that testimony has yet to be released, but lawmakers said they pressed Mr. Cuomo about a March 25, 2020, directive from the state’s Health Department that required nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients from hospitals. The disease spread rapidly through the nursing homes, resulting in more than 15,000 deaths by June 2021.During his closed-door testimony, Mr. Wenstrup said, Mr. Cuomo was “shockingly callous” and showed “little remorse for the thousands of lives lost.”Mr. Cuomo told reporters outside the deposition that he believed blame should be directed at the Trump administration for its handling of the pandemic, not at his leadership in New York.“I think the federal government failed this nation, and it was abysmal,” Mr. Cuomo said. “How did Covid get to the United States in December and nobody knew? How did it take so many months before we had testing — basic testing — in place? How did you have a president of the United States running around saying it’s going to be gone when the weather gets warm?”He argued the state’s Health Department had followed guidance from federal officials.“If I knew then what I know now, I would have told my Department of Health: ‘Don’t listen to the federal government. They don’t know what they’re talking about,’” Mr. Cuomo told reporters.A state-commissioned report recently criticized Mr. Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic, but did not fault him for the nursing home deaths. The report said nursing home deaths in New York were largely consistent with national outcomes.The subcommittee has also conducted transcribed interviews with at least a half-dozen high-ranking Cuomo administration officials.

A cyberattack on the District of Columbia’s online health insurance marketplace may have compromised identifying data of many members of Congress and other users.The online health insurance marketplace for members of Congress and Washington, D.C., residents was subjected to a hack that compromised the personal identifying information of potentially thousands of lawmakers, their spouses, dependents and employees, according to a letter from House leaders informing their colleagues about the breach and a memo from the Senate’s top security official.The Capitol Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, and Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, of the attack on the D.C. Health Link marketplace. Federal investigators had been able to purchase personal information about members of Congress and their families on the “dark web” because of the breach, the letter said.“Right now, our top priority is protecting the safety and security of anyone in the Capitol Hill community affected by the cyber hack,” Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Jeffries wrote on Wednesday, calling the incident an “egregious security breach.”“The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer will be in contact with important resources including credit and identity theft monitoring services, which we strongly encourage you to utilize,” the lawmakers wrote.The data of senators and their staffs were also compromised, according to an internal memo from the Senate sergeant-at-arms. That memo stated that the compromised data included “full names, date of enrollment, relationship (self, spouse, child), and email address, but no other personally identifiable information.”The cause, size and scope of the data breach affecting D.C. Health Link was not immediately known, according to the House leaders, who wrote that they were “being consistently briefed” about the matter by the police and the F.B.I.But the online health insurance marketplace serves about 11,000 members of Congress and their staffs, and nearly 100,000 people overall.“This breach significantly increases the risk that members, staff, and their families will experience identity theft, financial crimes, and physical threats — already an ongoing concern,” Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Jeffires wrote. “Fortunately, the individuals selling the information appear unaware of the high-level sensitivity of the confidential information in their possession, and its relation to members of Congress. This will certainly change as media reports more widely publicize the breach.”House leaders are now demanding answers from Mila Kofman, the director of the D.C. Health Benefit Exchange Authority, a private-public partnership responsible for the District of Columbia’s online health insurance marketplace. Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Jeffries sent a series of pointed questions to Ms. Kofman on Wednesday.Among them were why the insurance market had not formally alerted individuals whose data was compromised; what specific enrollee information was stolen; and how many lawmakers were impacted.In a statement on Wednesday evening, Adam Hudson, a spokesman for the authority, confirmed the breach, saying that “data for some D.C. Health Link customers has been exposed on a public forum.”Mr. Hudson said the agency had begun an investigation.“Concurrently, we are taking action to ensure the security and privacy of our users’ personal information,” Mr. Hudson said. “We are in the process of notifying impacted customers and will provide identity and credit monitoring services.”

A cyberattack on the District of Columbia’s online health insurance marketplace may have compromised identifying data of many members of Congress and other users.The online health insurance marketplace for members of Congress and Washington, D.C., residents was subjected to a hack that compromised the personal identifying information of potentially thousands of lawmakers, their spouses, dependents and employees, according to a letter from House leaders informing their colleagues about the breach and a memo from the Senate’s top security official.The Capitol Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, and Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, of the attack on the D.C. Health Link marketplace. Federal investigators had been able to purchase personal information about members of Congress and their families on the “dark web” because of the breach, the letter said.“Right now, our top priority is protecting the safety and security of anyone in the Capitol Hill community affected by the cyber hack,” Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Jeffries wrote on Wednesday, calling the incident an “egregious security breach.”“The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer will be in contact with important resources including credit and identity theft monitoring services, which we strongly encourage you to utilize,” the lawmakers wrote.The data of senators and their staffs were also compromised, according to an internal memo from the Senate sergeant-at-arms. That memo stated that the compromised data included “full names, date of enrollment, relationship (self, spouse, child), and email address, but no other personally identifiable information.”The cause, size and scope of the data breach affecting D.C. Health Link was not immediately known, according to the House leaders, who wrote that they were “being consistently briefed” about the matter by the police and the F.B.I.But the online health insurance marketplace serves about 11,000 members of Congress and their staffs, and nearly 100,000 people overall.“This breach significantly increases the risk that members, staff, and their families will experience identity theft, financial crimes, and physical threats — already an ongoing concern,” Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Jeffires wrote. “Fortunately, the individuals selling the information appear unaware of the high-level sensitivity of the confidential information in their possession, and its relation to members of Congress. This will certainly change as media reports more widely publicize the breach.”House leaders are now demanding answers from Mila Kofman, the director of the D.C. Health Benefit Exchange Authority, a private-public partnership responsible for the District of Columbia’s online health insurance marketplace. Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Jeffries sent a series of pointed questions to Ms. Kofman on Wednesday.Among them were why the insurance market had not formally alerted individuals whose data was compromised; what specific enrollee information was stolen; and how many lawmakers were impacted.In a statement on Wednesday evening, Adam Hudson, a spokesman for the authority, confirmed the breach, saying that “data for some D.C. Health Link customers has been exposed on a public forum.”Mr. Hudson said the agency had begun an investigation.“Concurrently, we are taking action to ensure the security and privacy of our users’ personal information,” Mr. Hudson said. “We are in the process of notifying impacted customers and will provide identity and credit monitoring services.”