SonicWall blames state hackers for damaging data breach


SonicWall has blamed “state-sponsored threat actors” for the cloud backup security breach which hit its services in September 2025.

In an update posted on the company’s website, SonicWall said it completed the investigation into the incident, and confirmed that the malicious activity was “carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor” and was “isolated to the unauthorized access of cloud backup files from a specific cloud environment using an API call.”

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Source: TechRadar News


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