US authorities have said the breach appeared to be the work of Russian hackers. General Paul Nakasone, who leads the Pentagon’s cyber force, said last week that the Biden administration is considering a “range of options” in response. Russia has denied any role in the hack.
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Since then, a series of headline-grabbing hacks has further highlighted vulnerabilities in the US public and private sectors. A hacker tried unsuccessfully to poison the water supply of a small town in Florida in February, and this month a new breach was announced involving untold thousands of Microsoft Exchange email servers that the company says was carried out by Chinese state hackers. China has denied involvement in the Microsoft breach.
Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat and head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the government’s initial response to the discovery of the SolarWinds hack was disjointed.
“What struck me was how much we were in the dark for as long as we were in the dark,” Warner said at a recent cybersecurity conference.
Wolf and other top Homeland Security officials used new phones that had been wiped clean along with the popular encrypted messaging system Signal to communicate in the days after the hack, current and former officials said.
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One former administration official, who confirmed the Federal Aviation Administration was among the agencies affected by the breach, said the agency was hampered in its response by outdated technology and struggled for weeks to identify how many servers it had running SolarWinds software.
The FAA initially told the AP in mid-Febru ..
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