Alleged Security Breach
The person (dubbed ComodoHacker) responsible for the DigiNotar hack, (the person also responsible for the security breach at Comodo Group) claims that he has also hacked the systems of GlobalSign and GlobalSign took the claim seriously enough to halt the signing/issuing of new certificates while investigating the claims which the GlobalSign Incident Report referred to being the most responsible reaction in order to accelerate the investigation and protect against issuance of rogue Certificates should the claims be true.
Dutch security company Fox-IT was contracted to analyze the breach and GlobalSign released a security incident report
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