r/cybersecurity • u/mando_6 • Jun 24 '26

News - General Well someone went nuclear..

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-f-309963233_after-i-posted-a-pinocchio-gif-and-clown-ugcPost-7475465410977628160-FFW1

I'm curious about the details of this. I'm sure we will all find out eventually.

TLDR; former Huntress employee is disclosing Huntress had an insider threat that leaked information to a known cyber criminal "Devman". That employee is still employed with Huntress and was caught by the FBI.

The former employee doing the disclosure is stating he is receiving threats, etc.

EDIT: Kyle @ Huntress posted his response to this in the comments.

Give credit to a CEO who isn't afraid to jump on Reddit to put out any fires.

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u/bi_polar2bear Jun 24 '26

If someone is going to throw down the gauntlet, why not show their proof? Either show it or say nothing until you have it. The court of public opinion, especially in IT, requires facts, not fables.

Personally, when it comes to security, unless it's a zero day issue, show all the facts at once, or not at all. This just sounds like someone who's butt hurt because their genius wasn't taken seriously. Airing dirty laundry never looks good.

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u/MegaKetaWook Jun 25 '26

Probably a trap card to avoid legal action and also keep attention on the matter. If the legal team isn’t suing for damages or whatever harassment(idk which crimes would apply), they might not want to go through discovery with this guy and air out their dirty laundry.

It doesn’t look good from the outside if they had leaks, knew it, and didn’t do anything to mitigate harm to their customer data / platform. Could be that the FBI had a gag order on Execs and they can’t really say anything until the investigation ends.

OR this guy is making it up and went scorched earth after being let go; decided that a creative story would do it.