The Hacker Gets Hacked
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 01/13/2017 05:47 PM
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Cellebrite, an Israeli company whose main product, a typically laptop-sized device called the Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED),is known for stealing information from cell phones. It is one of the most popular companies in the mobile phone hacking industry.
The data that it can gather includes SMS messages, emails, call logs, and much more. It is popular with US and local law enforcement agencies.
The hacker managed to get off with 900 GB of data that included usernames and passwords for logging into Cellebrite databases.
“Cellebrite recently experienced unauthorized access to an external web server,” the company said in a statement.
“The company is conducting an investigation to determine the extent of the breach. The impacted server included a legacy database backup of my.Cellebrite, the company’s end user license management system. The company had previously migrated to a new user accounts system. Presently, it is known that the information accessed includes basic contact information of users registered for alerts or notifications on Cellebrite products and hashed passwords for users who have not yet migrated to the new system,” the statement continues.
The hacker had this to say about the hack: “I can't say too much about what has been done. It's one thing to slap them, it's a very different thing to take pictures of [their] balls hanging out.”
Source: MotherBoard
The data that it can gather includes SMS messages, emails, call logs, and much more. It is popular with US and local law enforcement agencies. The hacker managed to get off with 900 GB of data that included usernames and passwords for logging into Cellebrite databases.
“Cellebrite recently experienced unauthorized access to an external web server,” the company said in a statement.
“The company is conducting an investigation to determine the extent of the breach. The impacted server included a legacy database backup of my.Cellebrite, the company’s end user license management system. The company had previously migrated to a new user accounts system. Presently, it is known that the information accessed includes basic contact information of users registered for alerts or notifications on Cellebrite products and hashed passwords for users who have not yet migrated to the new system,” the statement continues.
The hacker had this to say about the hack: “I can't say too much about what has been done. It's one thing to slap them, it's a very different thing to take pictures of [their] balls hanging out.”
Source: MotherBoard
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