Security News > 2021 > October > Acer servers cracked in India and Taiwan – including systems with customer data

Taiwanese PC maker Acer has not only admitted servers it operates in India and and Taiwan were compromised but that only those systems in India contained customer data.

The miscreants who claimed to be behind the network breaches boasted they stole gigabytes of information from the servers, and suggested other Acer operations around the world are also vulnerable to information theft.

In posts to the notorious RAIDforums, the crew said it swiped 60GB from Acer India, which included "Customer, corporate, accounts, and financial data." The gang also leaked login details that retailers and distributors in India use to access Acer systems as well as some customer records to support its boasts.

"To prove our point that Acer is a global network of vulnerable servers, we have hacked and breached Acer Taiwan," the post stated.

"We did not steal all data, and only took data pertaining to their employee details. Right after the breach, we informed Acer management on the Taiwan server breach and Acer has since taken the affected server offline."

Desorden appears to be trying to make the point that Acer needs to harden up, and that shaming it into doing so with repeated attacks has become necessary.

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