CrowdStrike Fires Worker Over Insider Leak to Scattered Lapsus Hunters

CrowdStrike fired an insider for selling internal screenshots to Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters for $25,000. Read how the security team detected the activity and protected customers.

Leading cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike recently confirmed it fired an employee for sharing confidential internal details with a major hacking group. This incident, which became public on Friday, shows that internal human risk can be just as dangerous as technical flaws.

Leaked Data Lands on Hacker Channel

The terminated employee, who CrowdStrike described as a ‘suspicious insider,’ was caught giving information about the firm’s private systems to a notorious collective called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters.

For your information, this group is widely known as a supergroup, comprising members from other prominent hacking entities like Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters.

The stolen information, which was later posted as screenshots on the collective’s public Telegram channel, included images of internal dashboards. These visuals contained links to ...