High-Profile Hacker Selling GE Data

Early claims that the infamous hacker IntelBroker had breached General Electric’s research and development environment were characterized as unsubstantiated. GE, a multinational with renewable energy and aerospace divisions, would neither confirm nor deny the hack, according to Cyber News.

“We are aware of claims made by a bad actor regarding GE data and are investigating these claims. We will take appropriate measures to help protect the integrity of our systems,” a GE spokesperson said.

The only real evidence seemed to be an unsuccessful attempt to sell access to General Electric’s “development and software pipelines” for $500 on a hacking forum.

But IntelBroker soon posted that since no one paid, up, they were “now selling the entire thing here separately, including access (SSH, SVN etc). Data includes a lot of DARPA-related military information, files, SQL files, documents, etc.”

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Cyber News reports that the re-listing got “better results,” and on November 27th, IntelBroker hung a “SOLD” update on its ads.

The data it seels is sensitive. DARPA is the acronym of the Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, which develops state-of-the-art technologies for the US military. In the ad, IntelBroker instructed, “If you want to buy this please message me on site for contact methods, XMR only.”

XMR is Monero cryptocurrency. It is one of only a few crypto exchanges where transactions are anonymous by default. Cybercriminals commonly use it.

IntelBroker is well-known for leaking stolen data. It was once banned from BreachedForums, a black hat hacking forum, for violating its code of ethics.