SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
There's a very old homily that applies exactly to this flaming debacle: don't put all your eggs in one basket.<p>WP says that SolarWinds "had about 300,000 customers as of December 2020, including nearly all Fortune 500 companies and numerous federal agencies."<p><i>Everyone</i> who thought that was a good idea, for whatever reasons - given the history of security - obviously screwed up badly. When -so many people- go -so wrong-, the problem is clearly bigger than the loss of 'too many secrets'.