Phone-Hacking Firm Cellebrite Got Hacked; 900GB of Data Stolen by Swati Khandelwal.
From the post:
Israeli firm Cellebrite, the popular company that provides digital forensics tools and software to help law enforcement access mobile phones in investigations, has had 900 GB of its data stolen by an unknown hacker.
But the hacker has not yet publicly released anything from the stolen data archive, which includes its customer information, user databases, and a massive amount of technical data regarding its hacking tools and products.
Instead, attackers are looking for possible opportunities to sell the access to Cellebrite system and data on a few selected IRC chat rooms, the hacker told Joseph Cox, contributor at Motherboard, who was contacted by the hacker and received a copy of the stolen data.
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I can understand the hacker’s desire to make money and if unlike TheShadowBrokers, who are still pricing themselves out of a sale (approximately $8,230,000), the price is a reasonable one, crowd-funding might be a useful approach to purchasing the tools for public release.
I can’t afford to bid on the tools as an individual, but would contribute to a crowd-funded effort to secure a public release of the tools.
Why? The more hacking tools that are available, the less secure governments become.
People become less secure as well but governments are a far greater threat to people than cyber-criminals will ever be.
Cyber-criminals want your money, governments want your freedom.