Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes says some of its emails were breached by SolarWinds hackers

WASHINGTON: Cybersecurity company Malwarebytes said on Tuesday that some of its emails were breached by the same hackers who used the software company SolarWinds to hack into a series of U.S. government agencies.

In a statement, the Santa Clara, California-based company said that while it did not use software made by SolarWinds, the company at the center of the breach, it had been successfully targeted by the same hackers who were able to sneak into its Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Azure environments.

Malwarebytes said the hack gave the spies access to “a limited subset of internal company emails.” But it found no evidence of unauthorized access or compromise of its production environments – which could have had a potentially catastrophic impact because the company’s security products are used by millions of people.