Nvidia suffered a hacker attack: it was asked to lift restrictions on graphics card mining cryptocurrency

According to market news cited by Sina Technology, US chip giant Nvidia recently confirmed that the company's computer network was attacked by hackers and some important information was stolen. The hackers are currently leaking the stolen data on the Internet.

Nvidia said in a statement that according to the company's current understanding, external hackers obtained employees' account and password information and entered the system. They stole some proprietary confidential information from the company's system and leaked it on the Internet.

Nvidia said its team is analyzing the stolen information, but preliminary estimates show that the hack is not expected to disrupt the company's business or its ability to serve customers . The company said it first discovered the hack on February 23.

In a channel on the encrypted mobile chat tool Telegram, a cyber hacker criminal group has publicly demanded ransom from Nvidia. According to some cybersecurity experts, the hacker group named "LAPSU$" has recruited members in South America and Western Europe. A US financial media quoted an insider as saying that the hacker attack was a so-called "ransomware attack." In this type of attack, hackers may install encryption software in the attacked system, making it impossible for the other party to read the data, and then the hacker will ask for a ransom to remove the encryption software.

However, Nvidia said that it has not yet found any malware deployed in its internal network. Instead, the hackers stole important data directly and then threatened to make this important information public. The condition they put forward was that Nvidia lifted the restrictions imposed on some graphics card products , which affected the efficiency of the other party's use of graphics cards to "mine" cryptocurrencies.

Nvidia rejected the hackers' requests for communication, and then they began to disclose the stolen data.