Israeli theater Cellebrite, the pop society that provides digital forensics tools together with software to aid constabulary enforcement access mobile phones inwards investigations, has had 900 GB of its information stolen past times an unknown hacker.
But the hacker has non even together with then publicly released anything from the stolen information archive, which includes its client information, user databases, together with a massive total of technical information regarding its hacking tools together with products.
Instead, attackers are looking for possible opportunities to sell the access to Cellebrite organization together with information on a few selected IRC chat rooms, the hacker told Joseph Cox, contributor at Motherboard, who was contacted past times the hacker together with received a re-create of the stolen data.
Meanwhile, Cellebrite also admitted that it lately experienced "unauthorized access to an external spider web server," and said that it is "conducting an investigation to produce upward one's ask heed the extent of the breach. The impacted server included a legacy database backup of my.Cellebrite, the company's cease user license administration system."
The 900 GB of stolen archive also includes login information (usernames together with passwords) of Cellebrite customers, which suggests that it has been taken from the spider web servers related to Cellebrite's site.
The dump also contains "evidence files from seized mobile phones, together with logs from Cellebrite devices," equally good equally it appears that society has sold telephone hacking tools to repressive regimes, such equally Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, together with Russia.
On the other hand, the hacker did non clearly country the actual extent of what he/she had done to Cellebrite's systems.
"I can't say besides much nearly what has been done," the hacker told Motherboard. "It's 1 affair to slap them, it's a real dissimilar affair to accept pictures of [their] balls hanging out."Cellebrite is known for its powerful hacking tool Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) that aid investigators bypass the safety mechanisms of mobile phones, peculiarly iPhones, together with extract all data, including SMS messages, emails, telephone telephone logs together with passwords from them.
Just a few months back, Cellebrite's most sensitive in-house capabilities were made world past times 1 of its products' resellers, who distributed copies of Cellebrite's firmware together with software for anyone to download.
