Security News > 2022 > February > Hackers to NVIDIA: Remove mining cap or we leak hardware data
The Lapsus$ data extortion group has released what they claim to be data stolen from the Nvidia GPU designer.
The first round of messages from Lapsus$ included a leak of what the actor said were hashed passwords of all Nvidia employees and a claim that the company hacked back to encrypt their virtual machine with the data.
The next message was a link to "Part one of Nvidia data," hosted on Amazon infrastructure, containing "Source code and highly confidential/secret data from various parts of NVIDIA gpu driver. Falcon, LHR, and such."
The size of today's data leak that Lapsus$ claims to have stolen from Nvidia is around 20GB and consists of an archive named "Integdev gpu drv.rar."
The actor says that the archive includes important source code and that they have enough information for a good developer to be able to create a bypass for Nvidia's LHR. They also added that they're selling a LHR bypass that would disable the technology "Without flashing anything." This would enable a cryptocurrency mining operation to make the most of Nvidia graphic cards.
For now, Nvidia is keeping quiet about Lapsus$ claims and the data they shared.