In March 2011, the company disclosed that two separate hacker groups had worked in collaboration with a foreign government to launch a series of phishing attacks against employees, posing as people the employees trusted, to penetrate the company's network.
The impact of the cyberattack that stole information on the SecurID authentication tokens as described by the CEO “I felt like a cannonball had been shot through my stomach”.
The company claimed that no customers' networks were breached but security professionals have been skeptical on this. Their parent company reported that it spent at least $66 million remediating the event.
One of the many lessons learned from this event are that even security companies are not immune to being hacked.
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