Cellebrite

Anonymous Whistleblower Leaks 1.7 TB of Cellebrite Data Including Full Software Suite

| Importance: 8/10

An anonymous whistleblower provides 1.7 terabytes of stolen Cellebrite data to hacktivist collective Enlace Hacktivista, representing one of the largest breaches in the surveillance technology industry. The massive leak includes the entire Cellebrite suite of programs, including the company’s …

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Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations

| Importance: 8/10

Cellebrite announces it will immediately halt all sales of its digital intelligence solutions and services to customers in the Russian Federation and Belarus, following revelations that its technologies were used by state officials to persecute opposition activists, minority groups, and LGBTQI+ …

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Hacker Steals 900 GB of Data from Cellebrite, Exposing Customer Information and Technical Details

| Importance: 8/10

A hacker successfully breaches one of Cellebrite’s servers and steals approximately 900 GB of sensitive data, which is then provided to Motherboard. The stolen cache includes customer usernames and passwords for accessing Cellebrite’s my.cellebrite domain used by customers to download …

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FBI Works with Cellebrite to Crack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone After Apple Refuses

| Importance: 9/10

The FBI engages Israeli mobile forensics company Cellebrite to crack the iPhone 5C used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, after Apple refuses to create software to bypass the device’s security features. Following the December 2015 terrorist attack that killed 14 people, the FBI …

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Cellebrite Launches Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) for Law Enforcement

| Importance: 8/10

Cellebrite establishes its Mobile Forensics Division and introduces the first version of the Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), a portable tool capable of extracting both physical and logical data from mobile phones, including deleted data and encrypted or password-protected information. …

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Cellebrite Founded in Israel to Develop Mobile Phone Data Transfer Technology

| Importance: 6/10

Cellebrite is established in Petah Tikva, Israel by founders Avi Yablonka, Yaron Baratz, and Yuval Aflalo. Initially focused on phone-to-phone data transfer technology for wireless carriers and retail operations, the company develops tools to help consumers transfer contacts, photos, and other data …

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