There are no indications that Amazon’s systems were directly breached, but hackers used its sprawling cloud-computing data centers to launch a key part of the attack, according to security researchers. Amazon has shared this information privately with the U.S. government, but unlike other technology companies, it has balked at making it public. “This was one of the most sophisticated and audacious cyberattacks on the American public and private sectors," Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) “AWS is not affected by the SolarWinds issue, and we do not use their software," an Amazon Web Services spokesman said in a statement. In Tuesday testimony, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that based on data obtained from its cloud-computing division, Microsoft had informed 60 customers that they were victims of the SolarWinds attack.

Source: Mint February 25, 2021 19:18 UTC