The Orion Hack
Orion hack exposed vast number of targets – impact may not be known for a while
By compromising one piece of security software – a security tool called Orion developed by the Texan company SolarWinds – the attackers gained access to an extraordinary array of potential targets in the US alone: more than 425 of the Fortune 500 list of top companies; all of the top 10 telecommunications companies; all five branches of the military; and all of the top five accounting firms.
But they are just a fraction of SolarWinds’ 300,000 global customers, which also include UK government agencies and private sector companies.