Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches
A former IBM cybersecurity executive has accused the company of covering up multiple data breaches by foreign governments over the past decade. William Barlow, who previously served as IBM's vice president of threat intelligence, claims that the company failed to disclose significant breaches, including those linked to Chinese hackers. The allegations raise concerns about cybersecurity practices at major tech firms and their responsibilities to report breaches to authorities.
- ▪William Barlow alleges that IBM was hacked multiple times by foreign governments and covered up the incidents.
- ▪The lawsuit claims that IBM's core network was breached over 56,000 times between 2013 and 2016 by a Chinese government-linked group.
- ▪IBM has not disclosed these breaches to the U.S. government, despite being a major cybersecurity vendor.
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A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by foreign governments and then covering up the breaches. In a lawsuit unsealed this week but filed in 2020, William Barlow, who was IBM’s vice president of threat intelligence until August 2019, said IBM concluded Chinese hackers breached its core network between 2013 and 2016 but that the company then covered up the breaches and never disclosed them. Barlow also said at least two IBM subsidiaries were also breached, and that IBM covered up those breaches as well.
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