IBM Whistleblower Alleges Cover-Up of Foreign Cyber Breaches

**Executive summary:** A former IBM cybersecurity executive alleges in a whistleblower lawsuit that IBM repeatedly suffered breaches by the China-linked APT10 group from 2013–2016, totaling over 56,000 unauthorized accesses across IBM and subsidiaries, impacting government, financial, healthcare, and critical infrastructure clients, and that the company concealed these incidents to protect government contracts.