BrowserStack is a cross-browser testing tool that allows its 25,000 customers to test their websites on over 700 different web browsers across various desktop operating systems and mobile platforms. It claims to have some big guns like Microsoft, GitHub, eBay, Adobe, MIT, VISA, and Wikipedia as customers.

BrowserStack hacked BrowserStack

The fact that BrowserStack was hacked became known after customers received an email that reads like it’s from a disgruntled employee, meaning the claims may not be true. Back in September, the FBI and DHS issued a warning about seeing a significant uptick in insider threats, costing victim businesses from $5,000 to $3 million. There’s a chance the claims could be true and the email was the hacker’s breach notification preference. A copy of the email is on Pastebin:

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