SolarWinds
American business IT software company
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| February 2025 | SolarWinds announced it would be acquired by private equity firm Turn/River Capital for $4.4 billion, with approval from majority shareholders Thoma Bravo and Silver Lake. |
| November 2022 | SolarWinds settled the class action lawsuit for $26 million and was notified by the SEC of potential enforcement action. |
| March 2022 | A judge ruled that the class action lawsuit against SolarWinds could proceed, rejecting the company's attempt to have the case dismissed. |
| November 2021 | Microsoft issued an alert about Nobelium targeting cloud service providers, managed service providers, and other IT service providers, following the previous year's supply chain attack. |
| July 2021 | SolarWinds separated its managed service provider (MSP) business, creating a new separately-traded public company called N-able. |
| March 1 2021 | SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna blamed a company intern for using an insecure password on their update server, though security experts discount this as the primary cause of the breach. |
| February 2021 | Microsoft President Brad Smith declares the SolarWinds cyber attack as 'the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen'. |
| January 2021 | A class action lawsuit was filed against SolarWinds regarding security failures and subsequent stock price decline. |
| January 14 2021 | CRN.com reported that the cyber attack could cost insurance firms at least $90 million. |
| January 8 2021 | SolarWinds hired former CISA director Chris Krebs to help the company address the recent cyber attack. |
| January 4 2021 | Sudhakar Ramakrishna, formerly CEO of Pulse Secure, became the new CEO of SolarWinds. |
| 2020 | SolarWinds experienced a significant supply chain attack by the advanced persistent threat actor Nobelium (also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear), which compromised multiple organizations through their software supply chain. |
| December 21 2020 | Attorney General William Barr stated that he believed the SolarWinds hack was perpetrated by Russia. |
| December 19 2020 | Microsoft announced the discovery of a second supply chain attack on SolarWinds, dubbed SUPERNOVA, which involved a stealthy malware implementation with a web shell acting as a remote access tool. |
| December 17 2020 | SolarWinds announced they would revoke the compromised digital certificates by December 21, 2020. |
| December 16 2020 | German IT news portal Heise.de reported that SolarWinds had been encouraging customers to disable anti-malware tools before installing their products. |
| December 15 2020 | SolarWinds officially reported the security breach to the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
| December 14 2020 | FireEye, a cybersecurity firm, publicly announces that it was breached and that the attack was part of a larger campaign targeting SolarWinds' software supply chain. |
| December 13 2020 | The SolarWinds cyber attack is first publicly disclosed, revealing a massive supply chain attack where hackers compromised SolarWinds' software update system to distribute malware to thousands of organizations worldwide. |
| December 13 2020 | The Washington Post reported that multiple government agencies were breached through SolarWinds's Orion software. |
| December 7 2020 | CEO Kevin Thompson announced his retirement. |
| June 2020 | Final hotfix version in the compromised release series was distributed, containing malicious code. |
| March 2020 | SolarWinds began releasing hotfix versions 2019.4 through 2020.2.1, which were later discovered to contain malicious code distributed to customers. |
| November 2019 | A security researcher notified SolarWinds about weak credentials on a third-party FTP server with the password 'solarwinds123', warning that hackers could potentially upload malicious code. |
| September 2019 | SolarWinds Orion software platform becomes the target of a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign, where malicious actors begin inserting a backdoor into its software update mechanism. |
| October 19 2018 | SolarWinds completed their public offering. |
| September 2018 | SolarWinds filed for a public offering after three years of being owned by private equity firms. |
| November 2017 | SolarWinds released AppOptics, integrating their software portfolio into a single software-as-a-service package with compatibility for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. |
| January 2016 | SolarWinds was taken private in a $4.5 billion deal by Silver Lake Partners and Thoma Bravo, LLC, with 1,770 employees worldwide and annual revenues of about half a billion dollars. |
| January 2016 | SolarWinds was taken private in a $4.5 billion deal, with 1,770 employees worldwide and 510 based in Austin. |
| 2015 | SolarWinds acquired Librato, a San Francisco-based metrics and monitoring company, for $40 million, and Papertrail, a log management service, for $41 million. |
| December 2015 | Acquisition by private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Thoma Bravo, LLC was announced. |
| December 31 2015 | SolarWinds goes private, ending its first period of public trading. |
| 2014 | SolarWinds acquired Pingdom, a Swedish web-monitoring company. |
| 2013 | SolarWinds acquired Confio Software, a Boulder, Colorado-based database performance management company, for $103 million, gaining a London sales office and the Ignite product. |
| 2013 | SolarWinds acquired N-able Technologies, a cloud-based IT services provider, in a deal reportedly valued at $120 million in cash. |
| May 2013 | SolarWinds announced plans to invest in an operations hub in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company was named 'Best Small Company in America' by Forbes. |
| 2012 | SolarWinds acquired EminentWare (a patch management software provider) and RhinoSoft, adding the FTP Voyager product to its suite. |
| July 2011 | SolarWinds completed the acquisition of TriGeo, an Idaho-based network security company, for $35 million, expanding its office locations. |
| January 2011 | SolarWinds acquired Hyper9 Inc, an Austin-based virtualization management company, with undisclosed acquisition terms. |
| 2010 | Kevin Thompson replaced the retiring CEO as the company's new chief executive. |
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