SolarWinds Data Breach
In December 2020, IT management software vendor SolarWinds disclosed that it had fallen victim to a highly sophisticated nation-state supply chain compromise.
Exposed Data Types
4- Internal corporate data
- Source code
- Business email addresses
- Encrypted keys
About This Breach
Attributed to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR / APT29), the threat actors infiltrated SolarWinds' software build environment and injected a malicious backdoor known as SUNBURST into official updates of the Orion network monitoring platform. The compromised software was subsequently deployed across approximately 18,000 public and private organizations, including multiple United States federal government agencies.
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