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According to several reports in various media, NVIDIA has been hacked and several key systems, such as email and its internal developer tools have been down for the past few days. According to CRN, NVIDIA is investigating "an incident" and the company issued the following statement to the publication. "Our business and commercial activities continue uninterrupted. We are still working to evaluate the nature and scope of the event and don't have any additional information to share at this time."
In a regulatory filing back in October 2021, NVIDIA seemingly warned its shareholders of a future attack on the company of some kind. NVIDIA claimed that it's hard to protect against attacks, as the attacks are getting more "prevalent and sophisticated". The filing went on to say "Our efforts to prevent and overcome these and similar challenges could increase our expenses and may not be successful. We may experience interruptions, delays, cessation of service and loss of existing or potential customers." Based on media reports, it's currently not known whether any data has been stolen or damaged and it appears that the attacker(s) haven't been identified.
Update: According to vx-underground, it's a South American "extortion group" by the name LAPSUS$ that's behind the hack. Based on screenshots provided by vx-underground, NVIDIA has allegedly hacked LAPSUS$ back and encrypted the data that was stolen. Unfortunately for NVIDIA, it seems like LAPSUS$ had backups of the data. The group claims to be sitting on around 1 TB of data from the hack.
Update 2: Further details about NVIDIA's retaliation on the hackers has popped up and it would appear that NVIDIA managed to access and encrypt the data through its own VPN. This seems to have been possible due to the fact that it was a VM image of an NVIDIA system that was being used. In other words, NVIDIA didn't hack the hackers, but rather accessed a VM image of one of their own systems and encrypted the data on said VM. Unfortunately for NVIDIA, LAPSUS$ claims to have backups of the VM image and data.
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In a regulatory filing back in October 2021, NVIDIA seemingly warned its shareholders of a future attack on the company of some kind. NVIDIA claimed that it's hard to protect against attacks, as the attacks are getting more "prevalent and sophisticated". The filing went on to say "Our efforts to prevent and overcome these and similar challenges could increase our expenses and may not be successful. We may experience interruptions, delays, cessation of service and loss of existing or potential customers." Based on media reports, it's currently not known whether any data has been stolen or damaged and it appears that the attacker(s) haven't been identified.
Update: According to vx-underground, it's a South American "extortion group" by the name LAPSUS$ that's behind the hack. Based on screenshots provided by vx-underground, NVIDIA has allegedly hacked LAPSUS$ back and encrypted the data that was stolen. Unfortunately for NVIDIA, it seems like LAPSUS$ had backups of the data. The group claims to be sitting on around 1 TB of data from the hack.
Update 2: Further details about NVIDIA's retaliation on the hackers has popped up and it would appear that NVIDIA managed to access and encrypt the data through its own VPN. This seems to have been possible due to the fact that it was a VM image of an NVIDIA system that was being used. In other words, NVIDIA didn't hack the hackers, but rather accessed a VM image of one of their own systems and encrypted the data on said VM. Unfortunately for NVIDIA, LAPSUS$ claims to have backups of the VM image and data.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site | Source
I was just making that there's no way that they'll have suffered catastrophic data loss from this. It's still pretty disruptive, though.
