Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike fired a “suspicious insider” final month, in line with a report from TechCrunch.
The terminated employee allegedly supplied details about the corporate’s inside methods to a distinguished hacking group. The firing got here to mild after Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters revealed screenshots this week in a public Telegram channel displaying dashboards containing CrowdStrike firm sources, together with an Okta dashboard for accessing inside apps.
Whereas the hackers claimed to have attained entry to CrowdStrike by way of a Salesforce-ecosystem breach involving buyer engagement vendor Gainsight, CrowdStrike representatives denied that declare, saying as a substitute the screenshots have been associated to the firing, during which the corporate “decided [the insider] shared footage of his laptop display screen externally.”
