Former IBM cybersecurity exec accuses company of covering up years of Chinese hacking
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IBM’s ex-threat intel VP alleges the company hid Chinese state hacker breaches from 2013-2016 and never told the feds. The case is now in court.
A former IBM cybersecurity executive has accused the company of concealing multiple data breaches by Chinese state-linked hackers. William Barlow served as IBM’s vice president of threat intelligence until August 2019. In a whistleblower lawsuit unsealed this week, he alleged IBM knew about the breaches and deliberately failed to notify US authorities.
The lawsuit was originally filed under seal in 2020. It centres on a hacking campaign by APT 10, a Chinese government-linked group whose members were indicted in 2018. Then-FBI Director Christopher Wray described the group’s targets as a “Who’s Who” of the global economy.
Barlow alleged that an internal IBM investigation found more than 56,000 potential APT 10 intrusions between 2013 and 2016. The scale was enormous. According to...
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