FBI-helping phone-cracking firm Cellebrite hit by 900GB hack

Cellebrite -- the Israeli security company famed for helping the FBI crack the iPhone at the San Berandino iPhone -- has been hit by hackers. The attack resulted in the theft of 900GB of data. While the website Motherboard -- which was handed a copy of the data -- reports that "the cache includes customer information, databases, and a vast amount of technical data regarding Cellebrite's products", the company has downplayed the incident. Cellebrite confirmed that illegal access to an external server had been detected, and indicated that an investigation is underway. But while Motherboard says that the data dump… [Continue Reading]