Our national security is extraordinarily vulnerable, Romney said on SiriusXM s The Big Picture with Olivier Knox. In this setting, not to have the White House aggressively speaking out and protesting and taking punitive action is really, really quite extraordinary.
Hackers believed to be part of a nation state have had access to federal networks since March after exploiting a vulnerability in updates to IT group SolarWinds’s Orion software. The hack has compromised the Treasury, State and Homeland Security departments and branches of the Pentagon, though it is expected to get worse. SolarWinds counts many more federal agencies as customers, along with the majority of U.S. Fortune 500 companies.