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UW emails highlight the race to respond to the global SolarWinds hack.
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Rich Kremer / Wisconsin Public Radio | 6:00 pm, Jun. 28, 2021 ×
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Email records show University of Wisconsin System cybersecurity staff raced to determine whether any of its 26 campuses or central office had been impacted by the global SolarWinds hacking incident discovered in December 2020. According to documents, some UW institutions were running the compromised software, though it s unclear whether attackers stole information or disrupted university networks.
On Dec. 13, 2020, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert stating that computer network monitoring products made by Texas-based company SolarWinds were being exploited by malicious actors and that it posed an unacceptable risk to U.S. government agencies.