Russian hackers hit 250 government agencies, firms in US: Report

San Francisco: The suspected Russia-backed hackers have compromised at least 250 federal agencies and top enterprises in the US, by infiltrating into ‘SolarWinds Orion’ monitoring and management software.

According to a report in The New York Times, as businesses such as Amazon and Microsoft that provide cloud services dig deeper for evidence. “It now appears Russia exploited multiple layers of the supply chain to gain access to as many as 250 networks”.

US Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) was quoted saying in the report on Saturday that the hack looked “much, much worse” than he first feared.