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Do I understand this correctly? There was a minor data breach at Ubiquiti. An employee named Sharp was using this as an opportunity to extort his employer and
by nerdponx 4y ago
Do I understand this correctly?
There was a minor data breach at Ubiquiti. An employee named Sharp was using this as an opportunity to extort his employer and exfiltrate data. Sharp was telling Krebs some yarn about the data breach being bigger than reported, which Krebs then repeated on his blog, accusing Ubiquiti of covering up a more significant breach. And Ubiquiti is claiming that Krebs knew the truth all along.
This sounds like a weird and complicated story, so I feel like I'm probably misunderstanding.
- InTheArena 4y agoSharp did the breach and then extorted Ubiquiti. Ubiquiti got the FBI involved and declined to pay off Sharp. Sharp followed through on his threat and disclosed everything to Kerbs, who wrote an article about it. The FBI and Ubiquiti were on to Sharp, but since Sharp was Kreb's only source, Krebs doubled down on the allegation with a series of articles, and then never retracted it (until now)
- mzs 4y agoThat's pretty much it, yes: 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... https://www.cyber.nj.gov/public-data-breaches/ubiquiti https://www.cyber.nj.gov/public-data-breaches/ubiquiti