DOJ, US Court System Latest To Announce They're Victims Of The Massive Solarwinds Hack

DOJ, US Court System Latest To Announce They're Victims Of The Massive Solarwinds Hack

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210107/18275746017/doj-us-court-system-latest-to-announce-theyre-victims-massive-solarwinds-hack.shtml

The hits just keep on coming for US federal agencies affected by the massive Solarwinds hack. State-sponsored hackers -- presumably Russian -- leveraged Solarwinds' massive customer base and compromised update server to infect systems around the world. Here in the United States, a possible 18,000 Solarwinds customers are affected… as are their users and customers, which brings the possible number of infected back up into the millions.

The DHS's cyber wing, CISA, issued a warning about the hack, noting that the only solution was to air gap affected systems and delete the compromised Orion software. Hours later, the entity warning other federal agencies about the hack announced it too had been hacked, making the whole thing a bit Monty Python-esque.