JetBrain's TeamCity May Be Entry Point for U.S. Hack
Sounds like SolarWinds hired a good PR agency with the goal to deflect blame and make it sound like a big conspiracy. JetBrains being a Czech/Russian company makes it the perfect scape goat. As was pointed out, "solarwinds123" hints at very bad security practices which makes some unpatched system or weak password the much likelier scenario. It might well be that the intruders then manipulated the SolarWinds TeamCity config. Would have done the same with Jenkins...