The source alleges the January security incident was severely downplayed.
A whistleblower involved in the response to a data breach suffered by Ubiquiti Networks has claimed the incident was downplayed and could be described as « catastrophic. » On January 11, the networking equipment and Internet of Things (IoT) devices provider began sending out emails to customers informing them of a recent security breach. The company said that someone had obtained « unauthorized access » to Ubiquiti systems hosted by a « third-party cloud provider, » in which account information was stored for the ui.com web portal, a customer-facing device management service. At the time, the vendor said information including names, email addresses, and salted/hashed password credentials may have been compromised, alongside home addresses and phone numbers if customers input this data within the ui.
