Hi everyone welcome to the A6 and Z podcast I am Sono and we're sharing this

episode that just dropped on 16 minutes here today because it's all about the

Solar Winds Hack one of the largest at least publicly known and so far hacks of all time.

It's widely relevant to all, especially given ripple effects, including the Wall Street Journal

reporting just yesterday that according to a recent government investigation

30% of both private sector and government victims linked to the hack had no

direct connection to solar winds so it's going to have ripple effects for quite some time.

So we did an anatomy of a hack in this long explainer episode,

a tear down of the specifics we know so far,

what went down, and what we all need to know whether you're a big company, small company, or

individual. For quick context before I introduce our experts, over 18,000

customers downloaded compromise software, this is as reported in December,

though obviously it now goes well beyond them.

Those customers include several large government agencies,

which we covered on 16 minutes last year.

Private sector victims include companies like Cisco, Intel,

Microsoft, Invidia, Deloitte, VMware, Belkin, and others. The broad consensus

per statement issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence,

the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Security of the

Department of Homeland Security and the National Security

agency is that Russia was most likely the origin of the

hacking and more specifically that the Cozy Bear group also known as

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