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Pardon me for appearing bellicose at this time of year, but how in the hell is this not an act of war? From the
It was evident that the Treasury and Commerce Departments, the first agencies reported to be breached, were only part of a far larger operation whose sophistication stunned even experts who have been following a quarter-century of Russian hacks on the Pentagon and American civilian agencies. About 18,000 private and government users downloaded a Russian tainted software update a Trojan horse of sorts that gave its hackers a foothold into victims’ systems, according to SolarWinds, the company whose software was compromised.