Just when we thought 2020 couldn’t get worse, security firm FireEye broke the news that the compromise of a software solution by IT solutions provider SolarWinds had resulted in security breaches across the public and private sector, at dozens of companies and government agencies, including the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Treasury, Justice, Defense, and the Center for Disease Control.
The National Security Agency, the main body tasked with protecting government assets from hackers, did not detect the breach. FireEye did—after discovering that it, too, had been hacked. Some security experts and U.S. government officials have described it as the worst security incident in the past few years.
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