And they claim that Samsung is next in line
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After the reports, and the confession, the hackers who broke into NVIDIA apparently start leaking the information stolen from the hardware giant – and they actually start from the employees ‘personal information, with tens of thousands of NVIDIA employees’ access information allegedly leaked to the network. If you believe the words of the hackers, another giant’s private information is also about to be published, and this time it’s Samsung.
More leaks from company employees
The affair began to surface last weekend when the Telegraph reported an attack that disrupted NVIDIA employees’ internal email services for two days. Initially, NVIDIA claimed that it was investigating a case that occurred and rejected an unknown announcement event (it is not yet clear if there is a direct connection between the things). But a group of hackers named Lapsus $ has started leaking cluttered passwords from NVIDIA employees to prove that it holds the vast amount of information stolen from it.
NVIDIA changed the tone earlier this week, acknowledging that “a malicious entity has got its hands on employee access data, and NVIDIA proprietary information taken from the systems…”. Now, the Have I Been Pwned website gives us a more complete picture of the damage and reports that 71,335 email addresses and piled-up passwords of company employees have been leaked and most of them have already been cracked. It is not yet known whether NVIDIA responded directly to this loophole, and whether it forced a password reset on all of its leaked employees, whose true number is much lower than the amount of leaks billed. Meanwhile, NVIDIA’s response page to the affair has not been updated since March 1.
This is not the only information that Lapsus $ allegedly holds, and it is a small piece of an entire terabyte that the group claims it is about to leak and between these files there are 250 gigabytes of information belonging to the hardware field. Among other things, the hackers claim there is information and plans on all the latest processors and also on the RTX 3090 Ti that has not yet been announced. All this information should leak, according to the group, if NVIDIA does not meet its rather strange requirements. Among other things, the group demands that NVIDIA release the drivers for its open source graphics processors from now until forever, and remove the restrictions on cryptocurrency mining from all of the company’s processors.
The deadline passed and nothing happened – except for a completely different leak
The deadline set by the team was for last Friday – a date that of course has passed. The group’s official channel said, “Stop asking us about NVIDIA. Give us time “, so it is not yet clear whether NVIDIA is in any negotiations with the group, whether another interested party is willing to pay for it or whether the group members are at a dead end. Anyway, in the meantime they dropped another bomb, claiming to have gotten their hands on a source code of none other than Samsung.
According to them, among the wealth of information (190 GB) that is captured is the source code for the bootloader of all Samsung devices, and the source code for sensitive components such as the biometric sensor and the encryption of Samsung devices. In addition, the group claims, the information also includes Qualcomm’s confidential information. The group began distributing the information via a torrent file, and it is not yet clear whether this is part of Samsung’s alleged extortion process and why the group did not place any demand along the way. Samsung did not respond to a request for comment.
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