Solarwinds blames hack on an intern and a bad password.
Blaming an intern is a profoundly unproductive path to go down.
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Blaming an intern is a profoundly unproductive path to go down.
Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against SolarWinds Corporation ("SolarWinds" or the "Company") (NYSE: SWI) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, and docketed under 21-cv-00047, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise, acquired publicly traded SolarWinds securities from February 24, 2020 through December 15, 2020, inclusive...
UPDATED: Many things came together to crack SolarWinds, but it may all have started with that classic mistake of leaking a lousy password. A SolarWinds third-party, public relations spokesperson, however, claims that the password incident had nothing to do with the major security breach.
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SolarWinds Blames Intern for 'solarwinds123' Password Lapse As cybersecurity researchers continue to piece together the sprawling SolarWinds supply chain attack, top executives of the Texas-based software services firm blamed an intern for a critical password lapse that went unnoticed for several years. The said password "solarwinds123" was originally believed to have been publicly accessible via a GitHub repository since June 17, 2018, before the misconfiguration was addressed on November 22, 2019. But in a hearing before the House Committees on Oversight and Reform and Homeland Security on...