Hacker Steals 900 GB of Cellebrite Data – Motherboard (Jan 12, 2017)
Cellebrite was in the news about nine months ago because Bloomberg reported it was the security firm the FBI used to hack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone after Apple refused to help, though the Washington Post contradicted those reports. Whether or not its technology was used in that particular case, that’s exactly the sort of work Cellebrite regularly does for US and other government agencies, and it appears that it has itself now been hacked. It’s not clear that the hack goes beyond some user data, though there’s a vague reference to technical data in the article, but this sort of thing reinforces the sense that no hacks of encryption or other security technologies, even for apparently noble reasons, can ever be deemed 100% safe from being hacked themselves. That, of course, was one of several arguments Apple made in the FBI case.
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