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December 16, 2020 09:00 am

SolarWinds Hides List of High-Profile Customers After Devastating Hack

SolarWinds has removed a list of high-profile clients from its website in the wake of a massive breach, "suggesting the company may be trying to obscure its clients in an effort to protect them from bad publicity," reports The Verge. From the report: The list of vulnerable companies is much smaller than SolarWinds' overall client list, so simply appearing on the list doesn't mean a company has been affected. SolarWinds claims that only 33,000 companies use the Orion product, compared to its total client base of 330,000. Out of that 33,000, the company estimates that fewer than 18,000 were directly impacted by a malicious update, and the list of directly targeted companies is likely even smaller. Still, there is much about the attack that remains unknown, and it is possible that additional compromises have yet to be discovered. SolarWinds' overall client list includes a broad range of sensitive organizations. Before its removal, the page boasted a broad range of clients, including more than 425 of the companies listed on the Fortune 500 as well as the top 10 telecom operators in the United States. In an article on Monday, The New York Times cited a number of organizations as vulnerable that are not cited on the public client page, including Boeing and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Other organizations have been cagey about their own exposure, even within the federal government. Several news outlets have reported that the breach affected the Department of Homeland Security, but the department has not made any official statement regarding its exposure.

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