https://www.tipranks.com/news/the-fly/cisco-moves-lower-amid-talk-on-x-of-security-breach
Thoughts if accurate?
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If customer data is leaked, it’s a distinction without a difference in terms of customer sentiment, though it may keep them out of legal trouble.
While anything is possible, this appears to be a breach of a subcontractor not Cisco directly.
That seems unlikely…
Any smart employee knows this could be tracked down to an account / employee - and while Cisco might not have great engineering anymore, it has excellent lawyers and connections in Govt…
That said I did come across the odd recently hired and then fired employees who really were pi---d enough to do anything….
Hoe
There's nothing to point to a disgruntled employee. Is it possible? Of course. Do we know that's the case from what is publicly know? Absolutely not.
Source: I've worked in incident response for more than a decade.
There is enough detail here to point to a recently let go employee. If it is a case they leaked the data, then they did a very poor effort of covering tracks
https://hackread.com/intel-broker-cisco-data-breach-selling-firms-data/
Keeping gfs or spouses of disguntled ex-cons who went to competitors and take AI/hacking/cybersecurity courses while having at home access to spouse's network info maybe?
It’s true.
Perhaps. would be good to get more info first