{"id":134635,"date":"2021-02-15T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=134635"},"modified":"2021-02-15T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T22:43:01","slug":"microsoft-president-solarwinds-hack-biggest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/microsoft-president-solarwinds-hack-biggest-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft President: SolarWinds hack biggest ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmicrosoft-president-solarwinds-hack-biggest-ever%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=134635&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2373065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2373065\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2373065\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-871747626-656x437.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith delivers a speech during the 2017 Web Summit in Lisbon on November 8, 2017. - Europe&#039;s largest tech event Web Summit is being held at Parque das Nacoes in Lisbon from November 6 to November 9. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA \/ AFP) (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"656\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2373065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith delivered a speech during the 2017 Web Summit in Lisbon on November 8, 2017. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 2:30 PM PT \u2013 Monday, February 15, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s president said the SolarWinds hack was the largest the world has ever seen. In an interview on Sunday, Brad Smith said the malicious operation required over 1,000 engineers.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers reportedly breached SolarWinds software, giving them access to various companies and government offices. The U.S. government said Russian criminals are the likely culprits and added the hack intended to collect data, rather than destroy it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2373108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2373108\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2373108\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21042069733026-764x437.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - This Aug. 4, 2009, file photo shows the United States Chamber of Commerce building in Washington. The White House says a senior national security official is leading the U.S. response to a massive breach of government departments and private corporations discovered late last year. The announcement that the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emergency technology, Anne Neuberger, has been in charge of the response to the SolarWinds hack follows congressional criticism of the government effort so far as \u201cdisorganized.\u201d (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)\" width=\"764\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2373108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 This Aug. 4, 2009, file photo shows the United States Chamber of Commerce building in Washington. The White House said a senior national security official is leading the U.S. response to a massive breach of government departments and private corporations discovered late last year. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Smith said malware was installed through a companywide update.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think from a software engineering perspective, I think it\u2019s fair to say this is the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen,\u201d Smith stated. \u201cWhen that update went out to 18,000 organizations around the world, so did this malware.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity experts are trying to determine the full extent of the attack and said it will be difficult to completely remove the infiltrators from the system.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/texas-gop-chairman-slams-biden-immigration-plans\/\">Texas GOP Chairman Slams Biden Immigration Plans<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898639,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}