On Sunday, an anonymous group of hackers posted some sensitive details allegedly belonged to Adi Peretz, a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at Mandiant, claiming they have had complete access to the company's internal networks since 2016.
The recent hack into Mandiant has been dubbed Operation #LeakTheAnalyst.
Further Leaks from Mandiant Might Appear
"It was fun to be inside a giant company named "Mandiant" we enjoyed watching how they try to protect their clients and how their dumb analysts are trying to reverse engineer malware and stuff," the Pastebin post reads.
"This leak was just a glimpse of how deep we breached into Mandiant, we might publish more critical data in the future."
Hackers dumped a treasure trove of sensitive information, which includes:
- Peretz's Microsoft account login details
- Peretz's Contacts
- Screenshots of the Windows Find My Device Geolocator, linked to Peretz's Surface Pro laptop.
- Client correspondence
- Presentations
- Contents of his email inbox
- Several internal Mandiant and FireEye documents
- Threat intelligence profiles for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)
Although the motives behind the hack are not known at this moment, Mandiant has yet to comment on the incident.
In response to the leak, Mandiant's parent company, FireEye issued a statement, blaming the employee's social media accounts for the leak. The statement reads:
We are aware of reports that a Mandiant employee's social media accounts were compromised. We immediately began investigating this situation, and took steps to limit further exposure. Our investigation continues, but thus far, we have found no evidence FireEye or Mandiant systems were compromised.
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