The hack was not discovered by the NSA or any part of the US government. Instead, the security company FireEye found it during a detailed audit of its own systems. Once the SolarWinds hack was discovered, it became immediately clear how disastrous (or successful, depending on your point of view) this operation was. The Russians breached the US State Department, Treasury Department, the Department of Homeland Security, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, and the National Institutes of Health. They breached Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco. They breached networks in Canada, Mexico, Belgium,
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