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Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike has confirmed firing a \u201csuspicious insider\u201d last month who allegedly fed information about the company to a notorious hacking group.<\/p>\n
A hacking collective known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters published screenshots late Thursday and Friday morning in a public Telegram channel that allegedly showed insider access to CrowdStrike systems. The screenshots, which TechCrunch has seen<\/a>, show dashboards containing links to company resources, including a user\u2019s Okta dashboard used by employees for accessing internal apps.<\/p>\n The hackers claimed in the Telegram channel to have compromised CrowdStrike through a recent breach at Gainsight<\/a>, a customer relationship management company that helps Salesforce customers track and manage their own customers\u2019 data. The hackers said they used information stolen from Gainsight to break into CrowdStrike.<\/p>\n But CrowdStrike says the hackers\u2019 claims are \u201cfalse,\u201d and says it terminated the insider\u2019s access after the company \u201cdetermined he shared pictures of his computer screen externally.\u201d<\/p>\n \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 Several other tech companies were allegedly hacked as part of the same campaign. Gainsight did not respond to TechCrunch\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is a collective of hackers made up of several hacking groups, notably ShinyHunters<\/a>, Scattered Spider<\/a>, and Lapsus$<\/a>. The group\u2019s members use social engineering techniques<\/a> to trick employees into granting them access to their systems or databases.\u00a0<\/p>\n In October, Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters claimed to have stolen more than 1 billion records from corporate giants<\/a> who rely on Salesforce to host their customer data. The hackers published a data leak site listing data stolen from companies, including insurance giant Allianz Life<\/a>, <\/a>the airline Qantas<\/a>, carmaker Stellantis<\/a>, credit bureau TransUnion<\/a>, the employee management platform Workday<\/a>, and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n