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Acer Philippines confirmed that employee data was stolen in an attack on a third-party vendor who manages the company's employee attendance data after a threat actor leaked the data on a hacking forum. Earlier today, a threat actor known as 'ph1ns' published a link to download a stolen database containing Acer employee data for free on a hacking forum.

Acer has confirmed someone broke into one of its servers after a miscreant put up for sale a 160GB database of what's claimed to be the Taiwanese PC maker's confidential information. "We have recently detected an incident of unauthorized access to one of our document servers for repair technicians," an Acer spokesperson told The Register on Tuesday.

Taiwanese computer giant Acer confirmed that it suffered a data breach after threat actors hacked a server hosting private documents used by repair technicians.The confirmation of a data breach comes after a threat actor began selling on a popular hacking forum what they claim is 160GB of data stolen from Acer in mid-February 2023.