News Nvidia Allegedly Hacks Hackers Who Stole Company's Data

[Admin]

New information has emerged that Nvidia has retaliated against hackers who stole 1Tb of the company's data.

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[jonathan1683]

Cool story hopefully it worked.

 

[King_V]

See, I'm thinking that if they're going to hack the people who hacked them, they should do more than just encrypt their own data.

They should make it Really Freaking Hurt the hackers.

 

[dk382]

Am I the only one concerned about multi-billion dollar corporations having hackers on their teams who can immediately retaliate in such a manner? What are these corporate hackers doing when they aren't dealing with extortion groups?

 

[Migmag]

Good on them but technically its a crime that's punishable for both parties as hacking is hacking and illegal regardless.

 

[Exploding PSU]

Fighting fire with fire I see

NVidia :
The Way it's meant to be played

 

[King_V]

Good on them but technically its a crime that's punishable for both parties as hacking is hacking and illegal regardless.

Are the initial hackers really going to alert the authorities and file a complaint?

 

[cryoburner]

I would expect them to have the data backed up, as they claimed, so that probably didn't accomplish much. I can't imagine an extortion group would go through the trouble of acquiring a terabyte of data, likely with plans to make millions of dollars off of it, yet not be able to afford a couple $50 backup drives.

And we can't even be sure that Nvidia even was responsible for the retaliatory attack against the hackers. It was probably someone else. As the previous article stated...

There are suspicions that Russian entities could be targeting U.S. and Western companies for sanctions imposed by their respective countries. In a somewhat interesting turn of events, hacking group Anonymous has apparently declared [cyber] war against the Russian government.

 

[Co BIY]

Good on them but technically its a crime that's punishable for both parties as hacking is hacking and illegal regardless.

Legal "self-help" is allowed in many cases. Encrypting your own data stolen from you by criminal actors is well within the bounds of legal principles. It's just like finding your stolen bike on the thief's porch and walking up and taking it back.

 

[spongiemaster]

Am I the only one concerned about multi-billion dollar corporations having hackers on their teams who can immediately retaliate in such a manner? What are these corporate hackers doing when they aren't dealing with extortion groups?

Yes, you are. Any company of this size is going to have a cyber security team with the job of preventing attacks like these as well as securing their own software and hardware. Elite level hackers are going to be the best people to employ for such positions.

 

[escksu]

I am not sure how true is this story but I am really concerned about Nvidia having a hacking team...

This means Nvidia could be hacking others or oculd be building backdoors in its own hardware.....