SolarWinds hides list of high-profile customers after devastating hack

Even the linked Google cache page of SolarWinds customers is returning a 404 now, but archive.org's copy is still up[1] and a screenshot of same[2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201214054313/https://www.solar...

[2] https://imgur.com/a/rQqy8pl

SolarWinds’ Customers

SolarWinds’ comprehensive products and services are used by more than 300,000 customers worldwide, including military, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and education institutions. Our customer list includes:

    More than 425 of the US Fortune 500
    All ten of the top ten US telecommunications companies
    All five branches of the US Military
    The US Pentagon, State Department, NASA, NSA, Postal Service, NOAA, Department of Justice, and the Office of the President of the United States
    All five of the top five US accounting firms
    Hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide

Partial customer listing: Acxiom | Ameritrade | AT&T; | Bellsouth Telecommunications | Best Western Intl. | Blue Cross Blue Shield | Booz Allen Hamilton | Boston Consulting | Cable & Wireless | Cablecom Media AG | Cablevision | CBS | Charter Communications | Cisco | CitiFinancial | City of Nashville | City of Tampa | Clemson University | Comcast Cable | Credit Suisse | Dow Chemical | EMC Corporation | Ericsson | Ernst and Young | Faurecia | Federal Express | Federal Reserve Bank | Fibercloud | Fiserv | Ford Motor Company | Foundstone | Gartner | Gates Foundation | General Dynamics | Gillette Deutschland GmbH | GTE | H&R; Block | Harvard University | Hertz Corporation | ING Direct | IntelSat | J.D. Byrider | Johns Hopkins University | Kennedy Space Center | Kodak | Korea Telecom | Leggett and Platt | Level 3 Communications | Liz Claiborne | Lockheed Martin | Lucent | MasterCard | McDonald’s Restaurants | Microsoft | National Park Service | NCR | NEC | Nestle | New York Power Authority | New York Times | Nielsen Media Research | Nortel | Perot Systems Japan | Phillips Petroleum | Pricewaterhouse Coopers | Procter & Gamble | Sabre | Saks | San Francisco Intl. Airport | Siemens | Smart City Networks | Smith Barney | Smithsonian Institute | Sparkasse Hagen | Sprint | St. John’s University | Staples | Subaru | Supervalu | Swisscom AG | Symantec | Telecom Italia | Telenor | Texaco | The CDC | The Economist | Time Warner Cable | U.S. Air Force | University of Alaska | University of Kansas | University of Oklahoma | US Dept. Of Defense | US Postal Service | US Secret Service | Visa USA | Volvo | Williams Communications | Yahoo

I still dont get it. Why are high profile companies still fully connected to the internet? Makes no sense. If I am not connected to the internet X cant hack me via the internet. $logic.

this sounds like a good idea, as this list could be abused, for a targeted attack of probably compromised assets.