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The email security vendor on Tuesday became one of the first SolarWinds hack victims to publicly announce they’re dumping the industry-leading Orion network monitoring platform for a competing product. Industry experts had considered it unlikely that the hack would lead to many customers getting rid of SolarWinds due to the unique visibility and monitoring features Orion offers. SolarWinds told CRN the vast majority of its customers continue to operate the Orion Platform, and the company said it’s taking all appropriate steps to protect them. Mimecast declined to comment further on the sw...

Hackers also managed to access a subset of email addresses and other contact information, as well as encrypted and/or hashed and salted credentials.  “In addition, the threat actor accessed and downloaded a limited number of our source code repositories, but we found no evidence of any modifications to our source code nor do we believe there was any impact on our products,” the company added. Mimecast added that it had no evidence that the threat actor accessed email or archive content held by the company on behalf of its customers.   The company was notified by Microsoft in January th...

Mimecast has decommissioned its SolarWinds Orion software and replaced it with a Cisco NetFlow monitoring system after hackers compromised a Mimecast certificate used for Microsoft authentication.