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Six federal agencies have so far revealed they were hit in the attack: the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Institutes of Health, as well as the Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security departments.
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The US issues an emergency warning, ordering government users to disconnect SolarWinds software which it said had been compromised by 'malicious actors' His transition had already been announced but no set date givenĭecember 8: FireEye announces hackers broke into its serversĭecember 9: New CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna announced to take over from Thompson in 2021ĭecember 11: FireEye claims it became aware that SolarWinds updates had been corrupted and contacted the companyĭecember 13: The infilration of Orion becomes public November 18 and 19: Outgoing CEO Kevin Thompson sells $15m in sharesĭecember 7: Leading investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sell $280m shares from SolarWindsĭecember 7: CEO Kevin Thompson resigns. SolarWinds customers who installed updates to their Orion software were unknowingly welcoming hidden malicious code that could give intruders the same view of their corporate network that in-house IT crews have
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March: Updated versions of SolarWinds premier product, Orion, are infilrated by an 'outside nation state'
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Stocks in SolarWinds have crashed since the announcement leading to questions about inside trading in Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo's stock sale.It is not known exactly when SolarWinds became aware that it had been targeted by the 'malicious actors', believed to be from Russia.
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In March, its software update was compromised, allowing hackers to spy unnoticed on businesses and agencies for almost nine months.The software company provides vital computer network monitoring services to corporations and government agencies around the world.Six days later, the tech company was revealed to have been targeted in a major cyber attack that has so far effected six federal agencies.On December 7, investor firms Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo together sold $280million shares in SolarWinds.REVEALED: Two SolarWinds investors sold $280million in stock six days before it was hacked in 'Russian cyber-attack' along with six federal agencies