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SolarWinds Inc. is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offices in a number of locations in the United States and several other countries. The company was publicly traded from May 2009 until the end of 2015, and again from October 2018. It has also acquired a number of other companies, some of which it still operates under their original names, including Pingdom, Papertrail and Loggly. It had about 300,000 customers as of December 2020, including nearly all Fortune 500 companies and numerous federal agencies.A SolarWinds product, Orion, used by about 33,000 public and private sector customers, was the focus of a large-scale attack disclosed in December 2020. The attack persisted undetected for months in 2020, and additional details about the breadth and depth of compromised systems continued to surface after the initial disclosure. In February 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that it was "the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen".



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The 2020 United States federal government data breach was the result of a cyberattack by a group backed by a foreign government on multiple parts of the federal government of the United States. The data breach, considered to likely be the work of Cozy Bear backed by the Russian state agency SVR, was reported to be among the worst ever experienced by the U.S, due to the high profile of the targets and the long duration for which the attacker had access. U.S. Senator Richard J. Durbin described it as tantamount to a declaration of war. Within days of its discovery, at least 200 organizations around the world had been found to be affected by the attack, and some of these may also have suffered data breaches. President Donald Trump was initially silent about the attack; on December 19, 2020, in his first public statement on the topic, he spuriously suggested that China, not Russia, might have been responsible, saying "everything is well under control".The data breach, which had gone undetected for months, was first publicly reported on December 13, 2020, and was initially only known to have affected the U.S. Treasury Department and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. From December 14, 2020, more departments reported breaches.The cyberattack that led to the federal breaches began no later than March 2020. The attacker apparently exploited software from at least three U.S. firms: Microsoft, SolarWinds, and VMware. A supply chain attack on SolarWinds's Orion software, widely used in government and industry, gave the attackers a foothold in victims' networks. Flaws in Microsoft and VMWare products allowed the attackers to access emails and other documents, and to perform federated authentication across victim resources.In addition to the theft of data, the attack caused costly inconvenience to tens of thousands of SolarWinds customers, who had to check whether they, too, had been breached, and in any case had to bring systems offline and begin lengthy and complex decontamination procedures as a precaution.



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