Attorney General Bill Barr said Monday that Russia was behind the massive hack of U.S. government computer systems, contradicting President Donald Trump's suggestion that China could be involved. 'Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens,' he continued, adding that the media were, 'for mostly financial reasons, petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!).' 'My belief is that from a security perspective, SolarWinds was an incredibly easy target to hack,' Thornton-Trump said in an interview published Monday. The hack began as early as March this year when hackers snuck malicious code into recent versions of SolarWinds' premier software product, Orion. As many as 18,000 SolarWinds customers - including the federal agencies and major companies - downloaded the infected software, the company said last week.

Source: Daily Mail December 21, 2020 19:31 UTC