Although most knowledgeable observers say the attack was likely carried out by Russia, President Donald Trump has tweeted that it could have been carried out by China or others, contradicting statements by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and outgoing Attorney General William Barr, both of whom have said the attack was likely carried out by Moscow.
The attack has exposed 18,000 SolarWinds clients after they downloaded and installed a tainted software update that was infected with malware. The breach wasn’t discovered until cybersecurity research firm FireEye, which was attacked separately, revealed the SolarWinds breach this month.
Federal departments such as Commerce, Treasury, Energy, and Homeland Security have been exposed, as well as large corporations like Microsoft, Ford Motor Co. and others.
On Monday, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said the Treasury Department “suffered a serious breach, beginning in July, the full depth of which isn’t known,” based on briefings the committee received from the agency, and contradicting Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who earlier said the breach was “under control.”
Wyden said the hackers had broken into systems that are home to the department’s highest-ranking officials and that the agency remained in the dark about “all of the actions taken by the hackers, or precisely what information was stolen.”
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