Enlarge / Leeor Ben-Peretz is the executive vice president of the Israeli firm Cellebrite. (credit: JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
On Thursday, Vice Motherboard reported that an unnamed source provided the site with 900GB of data hacked from Cellebrite, the well-known mobile phone data extraction company.
Among other products, Cellebrite’s UFED system offers “in-depth physical, file system, password, and logical extractions of evidentiary data,” and is often the go-to product for law enforcement to pull data from seized phones and other devices.
In a statement, Cellebrite called this hack “illegal” and noted that “the company is not aware of any specific increased risk to customers as a result of this incident; however, my.Cellebrite account holders are advised to change their passwords as a precaution.”