Nvidia admits that a lot of important data has been stolen and distributed online by hackers

Nvidia has just confirmed that the company has been hacked. Many personal information of employees in the company and important data are being distributed by hackers on the internet. In a statement in response to PCMag, Bloomberg and VideoCardz, Nvidia said the hacker attacked on February 23. The company has also started an investigation, but cannot foresee the full consequences of this attack.

Hacker group Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for this attack and data theft. Lapsus$ requires Nvidia to make its drivers open source, or else more important data is not exposed.

However, Nvidia does not want to comply with this request. The company is currently working with law enforcement and cybersecurity experts to fix the issue. At the same time, Nvidia also said it has made important security improvements.

According to PCMag, the Lapsus$ team claims to have around 1TB of Nvidia data. In it, a 250GB folder contains all the important and proprietary data of all recent Nvidia GPUs, including the unreleased RTX 3090 Ti.

In an earlier statement, Lapsus$ threatened to release all of this data if Nvidia did not remove restrictions on its graphics cards that would make them unusable for mining. chemical. Today, Lapsus$ makes one more condition, that is, Nvidia must permanently make its GPU drivers open source.

Darktrace’s Head of Threat Analysis, Toby Lewis, said: “Based on previous targets and the use of Spanish and Portuguese in the ransom notes, it appears that the group of hackers operating out of South America.” He also said that the activities of this hacker group are very secret and it is difficult to find their whereabouts.

Reference: theverge