IntelBroker has struck again. This time, the notorious BreachForums bigwig, which has a long list of high-profile victims, including Europol, Cisco, and GE, has claimed to have breached IT giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
The suspected Serbian-origin hacker is offering to sell on BreachForums, sensitive data allegedly stolen from HPE including product source codes and personally identifiable information (PII) of customers. “Today, I am selling the HPE data breach,” IntelBroker said in a BreachForums post. IntelBroker offered to sell a large amount of sensitive HPE data, including source codes, user data, and access keys.
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Source: CSO Online News
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