Acer is a multinational corporation that is headquartered in Taiwan. The company makes a wide variety of computing products, including Chromebooks, Android tablets, displays, and Windows laptops and desktops. It has 7,500 workers located in different countries of the globe. In January it was stated that the company’s annual sales in 2022 will be comparable to C$12 billion.
A cybercriminal using the pseudonym “Kernelware” may have compromised the data security of Acer Inc. A major data breach has been reported at Acer Inc., a large international company based in Taiwan that produces and distributes computer hardware and products. electrical. The hacker has claimed credit for the data breach.
According to Kernelware, the alleged security breach took place in mid-February 2023 and led to the loss of a large amount of sensitive information, totaling 160 gigabytes and consisting of 655 folders and 2,869 files.
Kernelware made an offer to sell the hidden data to interested parties in a post that was published on a cybercriminal forum that emerged as an alternative to the popular Raidforums, which has since been seized by authorities. He claimed that the data trove contained a wide variety of valuable files and documents. To prove that the data was actually taken, the hacker also provided a sample of the data.
An Acer spokeswoman said the company recently found evidence of illegal access to one of the company’s document servers used by repair professionals. According to Acer’s statement, there is currently no evidence to suggest that customer data was stored on that server.
According to the article, the materials believed to have been taken include secret slides and presentations, technical manuals, Windows Image Format files, binaries of different types, back-end infrastructure data, and product model documentation.
The data suspected of being taken also included replacement digital product keys, ISO files, files for the Windows system deployment image, BIOS components, and ROM files. In this particular case, Acer may be forced to consider disclosing some of its intellectual property, as well as perhaps confidential corporate documents. Companies spend a significant amount of time and resources creating proprietary methods and processes, as well as learning the technical aspects of their products. This information can be extremely useful to rivals in the highly competitive world of electronics and technology, and technical knowledge can be invaluable to malicious actors who want to craft vulnerabilities that target victim assets.
The hacker, who has a strong reputation on the site where the data was offered for sale, said the data was obtained in mid-February.
Acer has acknowledged a data leak many times before; this is not the first time. When a gang claimed to have taken more than 60 gigabytes of data from the company’s networks, the tech giant finally came clean in October 2021, revealing that servers in India and Taiwan had been hacked.
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