Nvidia hackers claim they also hit Vodafone, threaten data leak

Date:
Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:33:49 +0000

Description:
Lapsus$ strikes again, this time reportedly getting away with 200GB of Vodafone source code.

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Phone network Vodafone seems to have suffered a data breach at the hands of the increasignly infamous Lapsus$ group, without even knowing it.

The group recently issued a poll on its Telegram channel, asking their subscribers whose stolen data they should dump next - with three options available: Vodafone, Impresa, and MercadoLibre/MercadoPago.

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But Vodafone, which is allegedly leading the poll with more than 50% of the votes, says it wasnt aware of any hack.

We are investigating the claim together with law enforcement, and at this point we cannot comment on the credibility of the claim," a Vodafone spokesperson said, adding, "However, what we can say is that generally the types of repositories referenced in the claim contain proprietary source code and do not contain customer data.

If Lapsus$ really does come through with the threat, it will leak 200GBs of Vodafones source code. We dont know if any virus or ransomware was used in
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Lapsus$ has been wreaking havoc across the business world in these last few months. It has already leaked a huge amount of Samsungs sensitive data, which would, allegedly, place many of its endpoints at risk.

It also leaked a terabyte of data from Nvidia recently, including usernames and passwords of tens of thousands of Nvidia employees. Furthermore, it
claims to have used the data to create a tool that circumvents the hash rate limiter placed on the Nvidia RTX 30-series video cards.

The tool, on sale for $1 million, would allow Ethereum miners to use the
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Via: CNBC



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