On Sunday, an anonymous grouping of hackers posted only about sensitive details allegedly belonged to Adi Peretz, a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at Mandiant, claiming they accept had consummate access to the company's internal networks since 2016.
The recent hack into Mandiant has been dubbed Operation #LeakTheAnalyst.
Further Leaks from Mandiant Might Appear
"It was fun to last within a giant companionship named “Mandiant” nosotros enjoyed watching how they endeavour to protect their clients in addition to how their dumb analysts are trying to contrary engineer malware in addition to stuff," the Pastebin post reads.
"This leak was only a glimpse of how deep nosotros breached into Mandiant, nosotros mightiness release to a greater extent than critical information inwards the future."
Hackers dumped a treasure trove of sensitive information, which includes:
- Peretz's Microsoft concern human relationship login details
- Peretz's Contacts
- Screenshots of the Windows Find My Device Geolocator, linked to Peretz's Surface Pro laptop.
- Client correspondence
- Presentations
- Contents of his electronic mail inbox
- Several internal Mandiant in addition to FireEye documents
- Threat tidings profiles for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)
Although the motives behind the hack are non known at this moment, Mandiant has withal to comment on the incident.
In reply to the leak, Mandiant's raise company, FireEye issued a statement, blaming the employee's social media accounts for the leak. The tilt reads:
We are aware of reports that a Mandiant employee's social media accounts were compromised. We at nowadays began investigating this situation, in addition to took steps to confine farther exposure. Our investigation continues, but therefore far, nosotros accept works life no prove FireEye or Mandiant systems were compromised.
