Did US chipmaker Intel have been the victim of a hacker attack? Lately, the company is investigating how internal documents can be made public.
20 gigabytes of Intel chipmaker documents have been uploaded to the Mega file-sharing website. Some of the documents were marked as “confidential.”
According to ZDNet, the data was published by the Swiss software engineer Till Kottmann — who received the files from an anonymous hacker who claimed to have stolen them from Intel at the beginning of the year. According to Kottmann, the leak is only the first part of a multi-part leak series.
Kottmann won those leaks because he heads a popular Telegram channel where he publishes accidentally leaked knowledge through primary-generation companies.
The content of the files was reviewed through ZDNet with security experts and considered original: knowledge comes with concepts of internal design and source codes for chips.
According to Intel, these documents are necessarily reports, videos and photographs on chip platforms, internal architecture designs, roadmaps, etc. Sensitive knowledge files were not disclosed to Intel workers or consumers.
Although Intel denied any attempted piracy, it instead explained that with access to its resource and design center it may have downloaded knowledge without permission and shared it with Till Kottmann.
Here’s Intel’s statement:
“We are investigating this situation. The data appears to come from Intel’s Design and Resource Center, which hosts data intended for use through our customers, partners and other external parties who have registered to access it. We who someone with access has downloaded and shared this data.”
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