CrowdStrike employee passed internal information to hackers
It was revealed that a CrowdStrike employee had passed information to hackers. The hackers falsely claimed that the company's systems had been breached with the help of an insider. CrowdStrike sacked the employee.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- CrowdStrike
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Internal information passed to hackers
- Cause / method
- Employee passing internal information and colluding with hackers
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It emerged that CrowdStrike had sacked an employee who passed information to hackers.
- It emerged that an insider had aided the hackers' false claims of a system breach.
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