The Finnish telecoms equipment firm Nokia is looking into the suspected release of source code material on a criminal hacking site. See also: Gartner Market Guide for DFIR Retainer Services.
An attacker going by the handle "IntelBroker," who is also the proprietor of the current iteration of BreachForums, revealed on Thursday what he said was a cache of "Nokia-related source code" stolen from a third-party breach. The data consists of two folders: "nokia_admin1" and "nokia_etl_summary-data."
IntelBroker initially stated in a Last week's BreachForums post that he was selling the code, characterising it as a collection of "SSH keys, source code, RSA keys, Bitbucket logins, SMTP accounts, Webhooks, and hardcoded credentials."
A Nokia spokesperson stated that the company is "aware of reports that an unauthorised actor has alleged to have gained access to certain third-party contractor data, and possibly Nokia data." We will continue to constantly watch the situation." Last week on Tuesday, the hacker told Hackread that the data would cost $20,000.
IntelBroker told Bleeping Computer that the data came from Nokia's third-party service provider SonarQube. The hacker claimed to have gained access using a default password. SonarQube did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
In 2023, IntelBroker published online data stolen from a health insurance marketplace used by members of Congress, their families, and staffers. Earlier this year, he sparked a probe at the Department of State by uploading online papers purportedly stolen from government contractor Acuity.
Third-party breaches at major firms are becoming more regular as companies improve their own cyber defences. Earlier this year, a slew of well-known brands, including AT&T, Ticketmaster, Santander Bank, automotive parts supplier Advance Auto Parts, and luxury retailer Neiman Marcus, were hit with breaches caused by a series of attacks on their accounts at cloud-based data warehousing platform Snowflake.