Cisco should have a bit of a professional red face or black eye this week after hackers leaked data acquired from them due, in part, to a mistake. Cybersecurity News reports:
The notorious hacker IntelBroker has leaked 2.9GB of data allegedly stolen from Cisco’s DevHub environment. This partial leak, disclosed on December 16, 2024, is part of a broader breach involving an estimated 4.5TB of data.
The breach has raised serious concerns about the security practices of one of the world’s leading networking and IT companies.
The breach originated from Cisco’s public-facing DevHub portal, which IntelBroker claims was left exposed without proper security measures.
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IntelBroker initially announced the breach in October 2024 on BreachForums, a dark web platform. To validate their claims and attract buyers for the remaining dataset, the hacker released this partial leak containing files related to Cisco IOS XE & XR, Cisco ISE, Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Webex, and other technologies.
Read more at Cybersecurity News.
