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Tech firms to pay millions in SEC penalties for misleading SolarWinds disclosures

ID: 12042408-5546-57c7-b285-aedc5e7e5b0b

STIX ID: report--12042408-5546-57c7-b285-aedc5e7e5b0b

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2024-10-22

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Brandon Vigliarolo

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The SEC imposed fines on Avaya, Check Point, Mimecast and Unisys for allegedly making materially misleading public disclosures about their exposure to the 2020 SolarWinds supply-chain compromise. The report states a Russian-linked actor slipped a backdoor into SolarWinds Orion, leading to intrusions and exfiltration (including gigabytes of data and accessed cloud files); it outlines each company's alleged disclosure failures, settlement amounts, and brief company responses.

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