Other then what Wikipedia says I will look into this later. Marking this for later. It's a very good question. Though it's possible for one or two programmers working for the company could've planted this malware sunburst without the knowledge of the rest. Though we should check that new list of Chinese CCP people with those working for solarwind.
Was just pinged to this....
BREAKING per guest on @seanhannity’s radio show: “The FBI, Texas Rangers & US Marshals are all at the SolarWinds HQ in Austin, TX” looking at their systems. Notes the Executive VP sold 57k shares [$1.2M] on 11/9. The CEO, Kevin Thompson, had sold 700k shares [$15M] 10 days later https://t.co/DPN8u1z9I1— Murray 🇺🇸 (@Rothbard1776) December 14, 2020