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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Individual
Yuval Aflalo
Co-founder
Co-founded Cellebrite in 1999. The Israeli startup later became the industry standard in mobile device forensics with its UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) line launched in 2007.
On the record
Companies
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.