US corporations IBM and AT&T are repeatedly exposed to cyberattacks from abroad. Because they do business with the US government, they are obligated to report breaches and data exfiltration. According to a lawsuit filed by a former IBM security expert, this has not happened, or not to the full extent. He accuses the companies of having covered up successful attacks by foreign cybercriminals to secure new government contracts and continue existing agreements with the US government.
The lawsuit against IBM and AT&T was filed in a New York federal court back in 2020 and is still pending. However, it only became public now after the US government did not exercise its option to intervene in the proceedings. The plaintiff is William Barlow, who worked at IBM as Vice President of Threat Intelligence until 2019. The reasons for his departure are not known.
In the lawsuit, the whistleblower states that unknown cybercriminals from abroad have repeatedly infiltrated IBM's extensive cloud infrastructure, the networking of which is operated by AT&T. Parts of this cloud system are also used by the US government, including the military. In some cases, the corporations could not determine where the attackers came from or what they had stolen. IBM downplayed or covered this up, even though government contracts require the disclosure of major unresolved cybersecurity issues.
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