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Deepening Mystery — and Fear — Over the SolarWinds Hack
Tech leaders’ testimony to Congress suggests no one has been able to entirely figure out what happened.
Concerned about more cyberattacks.
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Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp.’s president, made it clear in a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing this week that the federal government and leading members of the business community still don’t fully understand how digital burglars pulled off one of the most dangerous computer hacks in history.
“Who knows the entirety of what happened here?” asked Smith. “Right now, the attacker is the only one who knows the entirety of what they did.”