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US Cyber Emergency – Data of Fortune 500 Companies, Treasury, Military and many others compromised in a major security breach
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US Cyber Emergency – Data of Fortune 500 Companies, Treasury, Military and many others compromised in a major security breach

The US has issued an emergency warning after discovering that “nation-state” hackers hijacked software used by almost all Fortune 500 companies and multiple federal agencies to gain entry to secure IT systems. The hackers are believed to have gotten into the servers of companies, government departments by tampering with software updates from SolarWinds. The company has government contracts, including with the military and intelligence services, according to Reuters. The attackers are believed to have used a "supply chain attack" method that embeds malicious code into legitimate software updates. The attack focused on the SolarWinds Orion products. FT reports that the US department of Homeland Security’s cyber security arm ordered all federal agencies to disconnect from the Sola...