Cisco confirms 'ongoing investigation' after crims brag about selling tons of data

Cisco has confirmed it is investigating claims of stealing — and now selling — data belonging to the networking giant. This allegedly includes a ton of sensitive Switchzilla files, according to prolific extortionist IntelBroker — the moniker for one of several cyber criminals who allegedly own and operate BreachForums.  On …

[Guy de Loimbard]

Well that's embarrassing....

Who's going to bet it's actually happened.

Switchzilla will have some serious egg on its face if they have been breached.

[MiguelC]

Re: The Register reached out to Cisco to confirm the breach

Did you reach though the broken window the scumbags used to access Cisco data?

[sanmigueelbeer]

Customers with concerns can contact [e-mail].

Not without a service contract you're not.

[Wapiya]

If you ain't paying, you are not a customer. Simple Cisco logic.

[Anonymous Coward]

Edward Snowden -- Cisco -- Backdoors -- NSA -- NIST........

.....and all of that TEN YEARS ago!!

So the bad actors have had access to THE ACTUAL BACKDOOR CODE for how long?.....

Maybe TEN YEARS!!

I'm not interested in Cisco's internal systems......................

.................but I am interested in bad actors using the NSA/NIST backdoors to read all my stuff......for the last TEN YEARS.

Have I mentioned bad journalism before??

[sanmigueelbeer]

Re: Edward Snowden -- Cisco -- Backdoors -- NSA -- NIST........

Tronald Dump, can you please get your act together?

Now is not the time to lose your proverbial sh*t.

[sanmigueelbeer]

Hey @ElReg,

Have you seen the latest security vulnerability bulletin?

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software for Firepower 1000, 2100, 3100, and 4200 Series Static Credential Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software for Cisco Firepower 1000, 2100, 3100, and 4200 Series could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to access an affected system using static credentials.