#SOLARWINDS DATA BREACH SOFTWARE#

#SOLARWINDS DATA BREACH SOFTWARE#

As many as 18,000 SolarWinds customers - out of a total of 300,000 - may have been running software containing the vulnerability that allowed the hackers to penetrate the Commerce Department, the company disclosed in an investor filing this week. Since then, more details have emerged suggesting a much wider pattern of compromise. While SolarWinds is not a household name, it works with many businesses and organizations that are. On Sunday evening, the Commerce Department acknowledged it had been hit by a data breach after Reuters first reported that sophisticated hackers compromised the agency through a third-party software vendor known as SolarWinds. “On a scale of 1 to 10, I’m at a 9 - and it’s not because of what I know it’s because of what we still don’t know.” “I woke up in the middle of the night last night just sick to my stomach,” said Theresa Payton, who served as White House Chief Information Officer under President George W. Investigators are still trying to figure out how much of the government may have been affected and how badly it may have been compromised.īut what little we know has cybersecurity experts extremely worried - with some describing the attack as a literal wakeup call. The US government is reeling from multiple data breaches at top federal agencies, the result of a worldwide hacking campaign with possible ties to Russia.

Solarwinds data breach