Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit signs a $3 million contract with Magnet Forensics, the Canadian firm that acquired Grayshift in 2023 following its $1.35 billion acquisition by investment firm Thoma Bravo. The contract continues ICE’s …
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 …
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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Grayshift rapidly expands its federal law enforcement customer base, securing significant contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), along with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Secret …
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 …
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 …
Grayshift is founded in Atlanta, Georgia by David Miles, Braden Thomas, Justin Fisher, and Sean Larsson, directly motivated by the FBI’s difficulties extracting data from the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. The company develops GrayKey, a small gray box measuring four inches by four …
The United States Supreme Court unanimously rules in Riley v. California that police generally may not, without a warrant, search digital information on a cell phone seized from an individual who has been arrested. Chief Justice John Roberts writes the landmark opinion, declaring that “cell …
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. …
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 …