The SolarWinds Hack Was More Humiliating for the Government Than We Thought The SolarWinds cyberattack, first reported in 2020, has long been viewed as a national security embarrassment for the US government.
However, new revelations from Bloomberg paint an even more damning picture: not only did hackers infiltrate sensitive email systems within the Treasury Department, but bureaucratic incompetence played a significant role in allowing the breach to occur and persist for months.
One of the most striking aspects of this story is the level of access granted to hackers through SolarWinds' Orion Platform software.