Dale Peterson

The hack got into their network in such a way that it could do a couple things. One, it could change some of the source code, deliver bad code. with a backdoor or something of that nature. And they also had, until then it's not unique, they had connections to a lot of their customers.

So potentially, it was the first example of an attack that could be highly leveraged, where you say, if I can compromise this one system, I then can compromise all these other systems.

I think as soon as I heard about it, just because we hadn't seen them go after a target like this on a stealthy manner. And as you know, you don't get a lot of details from these companies when they're hacked. But the details they did provide indicated that there was more than just a casual intrusion, that they had been there in there a while and they were getting deep into their system.

The thing that really got my attention was these remote connections to these other sites that I've been on the other end with customers. I know that from that location, they used to connect in. to support projects that were being deployed. So it was something that put a lot of large, important companies at risk.