Cisco Investigates Data Breach After Hacker Claims Sale of Data

Cisco has acknowledged that it is investigating reports of a data breach after a hacker began offering allegedly stolen firm data for sale on a hacking platform.

As per a report in a local media outlet, the investigation was launched following claims made by a well-known hacker identified as “IntelBroker.”

“Cisco is aware of reports that an actor is alleging to have gained access to certain Cisco-related files,” a Cisco spokesperson stated. “We have launched an investigation to assess this claim, and our investigation is ongoing.”

The allegations surfaced after IntelBroker claimed, along with two others designated as “EnergyWeaponUser” and “zjj,” that they infiltrated Cisco’s servers on June 10, 2024, and obtained a large amount of developer-related data.

IntelBroker’s post on a hacking forum showed that the data would include “GitHub projects, GitLab projects, SonarQube projects, source code, hard-coded credentials, certificates, customer SRCs, Cisco confidential documents, Jira tickets, API tokens, AWS private buckets, Cisco technology SRCs, Docker builds, Azure storage buckets, private and public keys, SSL certificates, Cisco premium product

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