Cellebrite, an Israeli firm which gained fame (or notoriety) for helping law enforcers crack into locked smartphones, admitted last week that it had fallen victim to hackers. The company said in a statement last Thursday that it has “recently experienced unauthorized access to an external web server” and was investigating the extent of the breach. The server that had been breached, it said, included a legacy database backup of my. Cellebrite, the company’s end user license management system, but added that the company moved to a new user accounts system before the hack. The hacker obtained basic contact information of users registered for alerts or notifications on Celebrate products and hashed passwords for users who have not yet migrated to the new system. The statement came after Joseph Cox, who works for the technology news website Motherboard, said an unidentified hacker gave him 900 gigabytes of data from Cellebrite servers, including messages from authorities in Russia, Turkey and the Gulf