Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike fired a “suspicious insider” final month, based on a report from TechCrunch.
The terminated employee allegedly supplied details about the corporate’s inside techniques 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 assets, 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 an alternative the screenshots had been associated to the firing, wherein the corporate “decided [the insider] shared photos of his laptop display externally.”
