June 6, 2026

Former IBM cybersecurity exec accuses company of covering up years of Chinese hacking

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A former IBM cybersecurity executive has accused the company of concealing multiple data breaches by Chinese state-linked hackers. William Barlow served as IBM’s vice president of threat intelligence until August 2019. In a whistleblower lawsuit unse...