Hackers are threatening to expose more than 112 GB of data from Taiwanese hardware company Gigabyte, which could include confidential documents from chipmakers Intel and AMD as well as American firm Megatrends.
The RansomExx ransomware group has targeted Gigabyte, according to a report in The Record.
The report said “A spokesperson said the incident did not impact production systems. Only a few internal servers at its Taiwanese headquarters have been affected and have now been taken down and isolated,”
The Taiwanese firm is well-known for its high-end motherboards.
On the RansomExx extortion page, which is hosted on a dark web portal, the message reads:
“We have downloaded 112 GB (120,971,743,713 bytes) of your files and we are ready to PUBLISH it. Many of them are under NDA (Intel, AMD, American Megatrends)”.
The firm was looking into how the hackers gained unauthorized access to its systems, stole files, and encrypted local backups.
According to Bleeping Computer, the hackers also included screenshots of NDA-protected documents from Intel, AMD, and American Megatrends.