Extortion failed! Nvidia confirms hacker attack and was asked to remove graphics card mining restrictions

On March 1, local time, the US chip giant Nvidia confirmed that the company's network was hacked, resulting in the theft of some important information. Hackers are currently leaking the stolen data on the network.

Nvidia said in a statement, "Based on what we know so far, external hackers gained access to our corporate systems, obtained employee credentials and some proprietary confidential information, and began to leak this information online."

Nvidia did not specify what was stolen. However, according to foreign media reports, the ransomware hacker group "LAPSUS$", which planned the leak, claimed that they stole 1TB of data information, including a large amount of confidential information and source code, such as Nvidia's program source code to limit the mining efficiency of graphics cards, graphics cards firmware, drivers, etc.

Nvidia said it became aware of the hack on February 23, and since then the company has further beefed up its cybersecurity, hired cybersecurity incident response experts and notified law enforcement.

The Nvidia team is currently analyzing the stolen data, the company added, "We do not expect this incident to cause disruption to the company's business and ability to serve customers."

According to foreign media reports, a person familiar with the matter revealed that the hacker attack is a "ransomware attack". The hacker may install encryption software in the attacked system, making the other party unable to read the data, and then the hacker will propose a ransom to remove the encryption software. Require.

In this regard, Nvidia said that no malware has been found to be installed on the internal network. In fact, after directly stealing important data, the hackers offered blackmail conditions and threatened Nvidia to release the information. They asked Nvidia to lift restrictions imposed on some graphics card products that affected its efficiency in mining with graphics cards.

But according to LAPSUS$, Nvidia did not respond to its conditions. Subsequently, the group began to leak some data information. (Science and Technology Edition Japanese Edition)