The servers of the Taiwanese company Gigabyte have been attacked by a ransomware virus. The hackers behind the hack are threatening to release 112 GB of confidential corporate information if the manufacturer of motherboards, video cards and other computer equipment does not agree with their requirements.
In a conversation with T he Record , a Gigabyte representative confirmed the hack. A similar incident report was posted on the manufacturer's Taiwanese website. The incident did not affect information related to the company's production chain, the spokesman said. The attack targeted only a few internal servers at Gigabyte's Taiwan headquarters, which were immediately shut down and isolated from the rest of the internal network.
The company is currently investigating how hackers broke through the security system of its Network, stole files and encrypted local data. Local law enforcement agencies also got involved in the case. Gigabyte did not name the hackers behind this hack. However, the portal The Record managed to find out that the RansomExx group had a hand in it. Representatives of the group published their ransom demands on the darknet. If the company does not agree with their demands, the attackers threaten to publish the information that was stolen:
“We've uploaded 112 GB (120,971,743,713 bytes) of your files and are ready to publish them. Many of them are under non-disclosure agreements with Intel, AMD and American Megatrends. Sources of leaks: [edited] gigabyte.intra, git. [Edited] .tw and others, "the hackers wrote on their darknet page.
For example, they also posted screenshots of some of the stolen files.
Gigabyte is not the only computer hardware maker to have experienced similar attacks in recent years. In the past, ransomware has fallen victim to Acer, AdvanTech, Compal, Quanta, Garmin, and others.
The hacker group RansomExx, which began its activities in the summer of 2020, is also responsible for hacking the IT systems of the Italian health department of Lazio. They blocked the operation of the portal used to register for vaccination against COVID-19 by residents of the capital and surrounding regions.
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