Earlier this week, AMD was reportedly investigating a potential breach as a hacking group “IntelBroker” claimed to have stolen information regarding the chipmaker’s future product plans, employee information, and even source code (which poses huge security risk, if stolen). The company has since clarified that the breach will not impact its current operations.
Hacker Group Claims AMD Data Stolen
The breach allegedly contains a wide range of data, which includes “future AMD products, spec sheets, employee databases, customer databases, property files, ROMs, source code, firmware and finances,” according to Dark Web Informer on X (Twitter). Some of the data, such as the internal phone numbers for AMD employees, have been revealed in the forum post asking for buyers (transacting via cryptocurrency, of course).
In a statement provided to Bloomberg, AMD says: “Based on our investigation, we believe a limited amount of information related to specifications used to assemble certain AMD products was accessed on a third-party vendor site. We do not believe this data breach will have a material impact on our business or operations.”
That is at least good to hear – having source code leaked can be a huge security issue as these often involves firmware, and any flaws spotted or authentication keys obtained may be used against its users to spread malware. Last year, MSI suffered a similar breach with confirmed leaks of its BIOS singing keys, prompting the laptop maker to remind its customers not to download firmware from unknown sources.
Source: PCMag
Pokdepinion: We’ll have to wait for whatever next move coming from the hackers to know if this is merely a bluff. So far it’s looking like this may be the case.
