IT firm at centre of global hack says fewer than 18,000 customers compromised

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U.S. IT company SolarWinds said on Monday that fewer than 18,000 of its customers had downloaded a compromised software update which allowed suspected Russian hackers to spy on global businesses and governments unnoticed for almost nine months.

FILE PHOTO: A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo

SolarWinds said in a regulatory disclosure it believed the attack was the work of an “outside nation state” that inserted malicious code into updates of its Orion network management software issued between March and June this year. It said it was not aware of vulnerabilities in any of its other products and it was now investigating with help from U.S. law enforcement and outside cybersecurity experts.

“After that, it’s just a question of whether the attackers decide to exploit that access further,” said one of the sources.

 

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Why would you phrase the headline like this? As if 18,000 companies isn't a huge number?

...and we should take solace with that result? Oh, it's just 18,000... whew!! But having said that, I thank them for their cyber expertise

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