wiredmikey writes: Electronics large Acer has confirmed getting hacked after a hacker provided to promote 160 Gb of information allegedly stolen from the corporate’s methods. “We now have just lately detected an incident of unauthorized entry to one in all our doc servers for restore technicians. Whereas our investigation is ongoing, there’s at the moment no indication that any shopper knowledge was saved on that server,” Acer informed SecurityWeek in an emailed assertion. Acer issued the assertion after a hacker introduced on a well-liked cybercrime discussion board that he’s promoting greater than 2,800 information totaling 160 Gb for an unspecified quantity of Monero cryptocurrency. The cybercriminal claims the information embrace confidential slides, employees manuals, confidential product documentation, binary information, info on backend infrastructure, disk photos, alternative digital product keys, and BIOS-related info.
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