Notice of Lead Plaintiff Deadline for Shareholders in the SolarWinds Corporation Class Action Lawsuit

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the Western District of Texas on behalf of purchasers of SolarWinds Corporation (NYSE:SWI) publicly traded securities between February 24, 2020 and December 15, 2020, inclusive (the “Class Period”). The case is captioned Bremer v. SolarWinds Corporation, No. 21-cv-00002, and is assigned to Judge Robert L. Pitman. The SolarWinds class action lawsuit charges SolarWinds and certain of its executives with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 permits any investor who purchased SolarWinds publicly traded securities during the Class Period to seek appointment as lead plaintiff in the SolarWinds class action lawsuit. A lead plaintiff is generally the movant with the greatest financial interest in the relief sought by the putative class who is also typical and adequate of the putative class. A lead plaintiff acts on behalf of all other class members in directing the SolarWinds class action lawsuit. The lead plaintiff can select a law firm of its choice to litigate the SolarWinds class action lawsuit. An investor’s ability to share in any potential future recovery of the SolarWinds class action lawsuit is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the SolarWinds class action lawsuit or have questions concerning your rights regarding the SolarWinds class action lawsuit, please provide your information here or contact counsel, Michael Albert of Robbins Geller, at 800/449-4900 or 619/231-1058 or via e-mail at [email protected]. Lead plaintiff motions for the SolarWinds class action lawsuit must be filed with the court no later than March 5, 2021.

SolarWinds purports to provide information technology (“IT”) infrastructure management software products in the United States and internationally. SolarWinds offers products to monitor and manage network, system, desktop, application, storage, and database and website infrastructures, whether on premise, in the public or private cloud, or in a hybrid IT infrastructure.

The SolarWinds class action lawsuit alleges that, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) since mid-2020, SolarWinds’ Orion monitoring products had a vulnerability that allowed hackers to compromise the server upon which the products ran; (2) SolarWinds’ update server had an easily accessible password of “solarwinds123”; (3) consequently, SolarWinds’ customers, including, among others, the federal government, Microsoft, Cisco, and Nvidia, would be vulnerable to hacks; (4) as a result, SolarWinds would suffer significant reputational harm; and (5) as a result, defendants’ statements about SolarWinds’ business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.

On December 13, 2020, Reuters reported that hackers alleged to be working for the Russian government had monitored email traffic at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments and that the alleged hackers were believed to have gained access to the agencies’ email traffic by deceptively interfering with updates released by SolarWinds, which services various government vendors in the executive branch, the military, and the intelligence services.

Then, on December 14, 2020, SolarWinds filed a Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosing that it had been the subject of a hack on its Orion monitoring products. On this news, the price of SolarWinds’ shares fell approximately 17%, damaging investors.

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