Breach
Signal hacks the phone-cracking box
2021Signal's creator published vulnerabilities in Cellebrite's extraction software, arguing its reports could be tampered with — undermining its reliability as court evidence.
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Yaron Baratz
Co-founder
Co-founded Cellebrite in 1999 alongside Avi Yablonka and Yuval Aflalo, building the company's original phone-to-phone data transfer technology for mobile carriers.
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Incidents in their orbit
Investigation
Sold to authoritarian regimes
2021Cellebrite's tools were sold to governments including Belarus, Myanmar, and Russia and used against activists and journalists, prompting later sales restrictions.