SEC Voluntarily Dismisses SolarWinds Litigation

On 20 November 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission voluntarily dismissed the case it had brought against SolarWinds Corp. and its information security officer, Timothy Brown, over the company’s security practices linked to the Sunburst incident. The joint stipulation to dismiss came months after the parties informed the court that they had reached a settlement.

The SEC stated in a brief release that the decision to dismiss with prejudice was “in the exercise of its discretion” and does not necessarily reflect the Commission’s position on any other case. The Sunburst incident involved nation‑state actors infiltrating a large number of public company and government computer systems by compromising SolarWinds’ Orion software platform. Read more at Inside Privacy.