Bloomberg reveals how many institutions of the world were targeted by the big breakthrough
The agency "Bloomberg", in a report yesterday, said that the cyber attack on US government institutions. It also includes no less than 200 institutions around the world.
The agency quoted experts' sources and estimates, that “the investigation believes that the hacker has incorporated malicious code into the software of the American company SolarWinds. Which transferred him to about 18 thousand agents, making them vulnerable to attacks.
The report stated that “it was established in the investigation that the infiltrators carried out direct measures to obtain unauthorized access. To the computer systems of at least 200 different institutions.
"The motives of the hackers are still unknown," the agency added. It is not clear what exactly they discovered, or stole through their infiltration into computer networks.
In a joint statement released Wednesday, the FBI and National Intelligence, in the United States, said. They record a major attack on the federal government's computer networks.
And US Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, in a press interview on Friday, hinted that Russia was involved in the incident.
As for the current US President, Donald Trump, he said on Saturday that the media exaggerated the extent of the incident. He did not agree that the hacker was working for Moscow, and indicated the possibility of China being involved in the incident.
