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Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches

IBM and two of its subsidiary companies were allegedly breached during the mid-2010s — a lawsuit filed by a former cybersecurity executive accuses IBM of not disclosing and actively covering it up.

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