{"id":5912,"date":"2025-11-22T01:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:34:07","slug":"crowdstrike-fired-insider-for-sharing-internal-info-with-hacking-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=5912","title":{"rendered":"CrowdStrike fired insider for sharing internal info with hacking group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg\">\n<div class=\"article-column__content\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<p>Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike fired a \u201csuspicious insider\u201d last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/11\/21\/crowdstrike-fires-suspicious-insider-who-passed-information-to-hackers\/\">according to a report from TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The terminated worker allegedly provided information about the company\u2019s internal systems to a prominent hacking group. The firing came to light after Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters published screenshots this week in a public Telegram channel showing dashboards containing CrowdStrike company resources, including an Okta dashboard for accessing internal apps.<\/p>\n<p>While the hackers claimed to have attained access to CrowdStrike via a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4094506\/oauth-token-compromise-hits-salesforce-ecosystem-again-gainsight-impacted.html\">Salesforce-ecosystem breach involving customer engagement vendor Gainsight<\/a>, CrowdStrike representatives denied that claim, saying instead the screenshots were related to the firing, in which the company \u201cdetermined [the insider] shared pictures of his computer screen externally.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur systems were never compromised and customers remained protected throughout. We have turned the case over to relevant law enforcement agencies,\u201d CrowdStrike spokesperson Kevin Benacci told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike fired a \u201csuspicious insider\u201d last month, according to a report from TechCrunch. The terminated worker allegedly provided information about the company\u2019s internal systems to a prominent hacking group. The firing came to light after Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters published screenshots this week in a public Telegram channel showing dashboards containing CrowdStrike company resources, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}