Incident response protocols engaged following claims of source code burglary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is probing assertions made by prolific Big Tech intruder IntelBroker that they broke into the US corporation's systems and accessed source code, among other things.

In a statement sent to The Register, HPE confirmed it was informed of the cyber criminal's claims late last week:

"HPE became aware on January 16 of claims being made by a group called IntelBroker that it was in possession of information belonging to HPE. HPE immediately activated our cyber response protocols, disabled related credentials, and launched an investigation to evaluate the validity of the claims.

"There is no operational impact to our business at this time, nor evidence that customer information is involved."

The attacker is selling the allegedly stolen data on a cybercrime forum, claiming to offer access to HPE source code taken from private GitHub repos, Docker builds, and SAP Hybris.

IntelBroker also claims that personally ...