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I read in another HN thread that Ubiquiti was actually not hacked but that a former employee leaked information and tricked Krebs into believing he was a whistl
by ruph123 5y ago
I read in another HN thread that Ubiquiti was actually not hacked but that a former employee leaked information and tricked Krebs into believing he was a whistleblower.
Is there a more detailed write-up somewhere about what happened exactly?
- kmlx 5y agowait. they didn't actually get hacked, and because Krebs didn't actually check his sources the stock fell 20%? and they're only suing him now?
- InTheArena 5y agohttps://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/252510411/Former-Ubiquiti-engineer-arrested-for-inside-threat-attack https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/252510411/For... Basically, insider used his credentials as a highly trusted resource to access internal repositories. He then anonymously blackmailed the company, threatening to go public as a "external actor" if the company didn't pay him. The company instead got the FBI involved - which Sharp was aware of because of his role at Ubiquiti. He then lied to Krebs at least once (probably twice) claiming first that a external actor had breached ubiquiti and the company was deliberately covering it up.
- fredoralive 5y agoThe Department of Justices indictment (https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-employee-technology-company-charged-stealing-confidential-data-and-extorting https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-employee-technol...) give a fair amount of detail about what they allege happened, although it doesn't go into much details of the interaction between Krebs and the accused.