The hacker and forum owner known as “IntelBroker” announced that he and others breached Cisco systems and obtained source code and other valuable information. In a forum post where they offered “partial Cisco” data, they admit that a Cisco error had enabled them to access the data:
As Security Week reports, Cisco’s investigation confirmed that its systems had not been breached and that the data was actually obtained from a public-facing DevHub environment.
The networking giant noted that while a majority of the data hosted in the DevHub environment was public, the hackers also obtained some files that were not intended for public download and were inadvertently published on the site due to a configuration error. The downloaded data included files related to some CX Professional Services customers.
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