By Raphael Satter on Apr 14, 2021 12:16PM In the first three months of 2021. SolarWinds said the sprawling breach stemming from the compromise of its flagship software product has cost the company at least US$18 million (A$23.5 million) in the first three months of 2021. In preliminary results made public on Tuesday, the company said it spent between US$18 million and US$19 million in the first quarter of 2021 to investigate and remediate what it described as "the cyber incident." SolarWinds has been working since December to deal with the fallout of a series of intrusions blamed on Russian hackers across the US government and scores of private companies.