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Refresher: SolarWinds is that company that develops IT management software. The hack (suspected to be carried out by the Russians[1]) involving SolarWinds' systems and software penetrated thousands of organizations globally including multiple parts of the United States federal government, leading to a series of data breaches.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220101181934/https://www.nytim...

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This is a helpful reminder because upon reading the headline I immediately confused this company with the solar roof company Tesla acquired a few years ago.

That's SolarCity, and Elon Musk was chairman of the company long before Tesla acquired it.

I was thinking of Solyndra, the company whose executives misled federal officials to obtain $535 million in government-backed loans, with the help of former President Barack Obama's White House

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