By Dan O'Donnell Jan 25, 2021 Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers' administration misled reporters about the severity of last month's SolarWinds government computer hack, internal emails from the Evers Administration show. When news broke on December 20th that hackers believed to be from Russia gained entry to federal government systems using security vulnerabilities in SolarWinds software, reporters from both the Associated Press and Bloomberg News contacted Evers spokeswoman Britt Cudaback as well as Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) spokeswoman Molly Vidal. "Are you aware of anything in Wisconsin being targeted?" Associated Press reporter Scott Bauer asked in an email at 9:36 am on the 18th. Cudaback and Vidal forwarded this email to several other DOA administrators, who confirmed that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) did indeed use a version of SolarWinds software.