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FireEye

Disclosed Dec 8, 20205 years agoConfirmed

SEC filing

Nation-state attacker steals FireEye red team assessment tools

FireEye disclosed that a highly sophisticated threat actor accessed its internal systems and took Red Team assessment tools while seeking information about government customers; the intrusion was later traced to the SolarWinds Orion backdoor.

What is known

People affectedNot stated in the sources we have
DisclosedDec 8, 2020
AttackSupply chain
Data exposedInternal documents, Other
SectorTech · US
StatusConfirmed
Part ofSolarwinds (2020)

Sources

Source
FireEye 8-K (December 8, 2020)sec.gov · SEC filing

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
ResearchtotalDec 8, 2020

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History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · seed source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Research), confirmed by Research. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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