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A whistleblower lawsuit alleges that IBM concealed multiple mid-2010s breaches by foreign state actors, raising concerns about the opacity of security incidents even within major cybersecurity vendors. The claim that government agencies were never notified highlights a critical gap in breach disclosure practices that recent legislation aims to address. This case underscores the tension between corporate legal strategies and the transparency required for effective threat intelligence sharing.

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Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches

TechCrunchJune 5, 20264 min read

IBM and two of its subsidiary companies were allegedly breached during the mid-2010s — a lawsuit filed by a former cybersecurity executive accuses IBM of not disclosing and actively covering it up.

A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by foreign governments and then covering up the breaches. In a lawsuit unsealed this week but filed in 2020, William Barlow, who was IBM’s vice president of threat intelligence until August 2019, said IBM concluded Chinese hackers breached its core network between 2013 and 2016 but that the company…

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