diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index cbda14d4d4f6..c114e1489d86 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/apm"]
 	path = vendor/apm
 	url = https://github.com/atom/apm.git
+[submodule "vendor/breakpad"]
+	path = vendor/breakpad
+	url = https://github.com/atom/chromium-breakpad.git
diff --git a/vendor/breakpad b/vendor/breakpad
new file mode 160000
index 000000000000..7f573220961d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/breakpad
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 7f573220961df1d4d6a1c4c3c0e0c118e83a8628