Nvidia data claimed by Lapsus$, via @vxunderground — breach confirmed
@vxunderground relayed the Lapsus$ claim on Feb 26, 2022. Nvidia confirmed data theft on March 1.
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On Feb 26, 2022, @vxunderground posted that the Lapsus$ extortion group claimed to have breached Nvidia and taken over 1TB of proprietary data.
The Verge had reported Nvidia investigating an “incident” on Feb 25. On March 1, Nvidia said it became aware of the intrusion on Feb 23 and that the attacker was leaking employee credentials and proprietary information, per TechCrunch, The Verge and BleepingComputer.
Confirmed that data was stolen. The 1TB figure is the group’s claim.
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LAPSU$ extortion group, a group operating out of South America, claim to have breached NVIDIA and exfiltrated over 1TB of proprietary data. LAPSU$ claims NVIDIA performed a hack back and states NVIDIA has successful ransomed their machines Intel and photos courtesy of @S0ufi4n3 https://t.co/fXcTNqgIpW
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Original source & corroborating coverage
- Original X post by @vxunderground
- The Verge — Nvidia confirms it’s investigating an ‘incident,’ reportedly a cyberattack
- The Verge — Nvidia says its ‘proprietary information’ is being leaked by hackers
- TechCrunch — Nvidia says hackers are leaking company data after cyberattack attack
- BleepingComputer — NVIDIA confirms data was stolen in recent cyberattack