Cybersecurity
FireEye Discovered SolarWinds Breach While Probing Own Hack
- U.S. officials have said Russian government behind the hacks
- More than 25 entities have been compromised, people say
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When FireEye Inc. discovered that it was hacked this month, the cybersecurity firm’s investigators immediately set about trying to figure out how attackers got past its defenses.
It wasn’t just FireEye that got attacked, they quickly found out. Investigators discovered a vulnerability in a product made by one of its software providers, Texas-based SolarWinds Corp.