Nuked Nvidia confirmed to the verge, Bloomberg, Reuters, and others that it’s investigating an’incident’. Hours after the Telegraph reported that the graphics chip maker had suffered a devastating cyberattack that’completely compromised’ the company’s internal systems.
‘we are still working to evaluate the nature and scope of the event,’ NVIDIA spokesman Hector marinez says.’our business and commercial activities continue uninterrupted,’ he adds.
The Telegraph’s sources are n’t suggesting that Nvidia has had any data stolen or deleted. There’s no current suggestion that the’incident’ might be linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Bloomberg is now reporting it was a minor ransomware attack, citing a’person familiar with the incident’. Bloomberg is reporting the incident as a’minor’.
Lapsus ransomware gang leaked the credentials of NVIDIA employees. And announced that it would soon release 1TB of stolen data.
Lapsus $, a ransomware gang recently linked to an attack on Portugal’s largest TV channel, has claimed responsibility. The group claims to have leaked what it says are the password hashes for Nvidia employees. They apparently claim to still have a backup of the data they are threatening to leak.
If Russia pursues cyberattacks against our companies, our critical infrastructure, we’re prepared to respond,’ President Biden said.
The alleged attack reportedly knocked out NVIDIA’s email. We did receive NVIDIA’s statement today from an NVIDIA email address.
Nvidia also asked press to push back a minor announcement that would have arrived on Thursday, without providing an explanation. That timing lines up with when the Telegraph reports that Nvidia’s systems were compromised.
Bloomberg is now citing a source that the’incident’ occurred as a ransomware attack. The’ransomware attack’ occurred in a bid to ransomware.
