Hackers Hacked Mobile Hacking Company
The mobile hacking company Cellebrite has been pretty popular last year due to its involvement in the hacking in the iPhone that belongs to the terrorist from San Bernardino scandal. Now the company again made it to the headlines, not because of their accomplishment, but the reason is different. A hacker managed to hack the company and steal more than 900 gigabytes of data. According to a report from the Motherboard, an unnamed hacker has breached Cellebrite’s systems and managed to steal 900 Gb of data . The data includes the customer usernames and passwords, the data collected by the company from various mobile devices, and other technical information of the company. All the stolen files and data is reportedly traded in some IRC chat rooms, but the hacker claims that he did not leak the data to the public. The motivation of the hacker is still not clear, but he seems to have dome this against the changes in surveillance legislation and the “recent stance taken by Western governments....