Some 20 GB of Intel documents often marked as confidential or restricted access have begun to circulate on the network. Everything seems to indicate that it is a leak of internal documents of the company with intellectual property. They include everything from product guides to company roadmaps to manuals for Intel chips.
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As indicated by Intel a cyberscoop, the documents come from Resource and Design Center of the company. They believe that someone with access to this place has taken out the documents.
Capture of one of Intel’s documents on a future product. Via ZDNet. —
The other option is that some hacker has managed to access this internal system to get the documents out of there. It is what apunta ZDNet through To Kottmann, a Swiss software engineer who claims to have received the documents from a hacker who claims to have accessed Intel’s internal system. In fact, Till Kottmann indicates that this is just the first part of several Intel-related leaks that will come to light.
Intel denies that they had a security breach. However, Till Kottmann has published the conversation he has had with the hacker who claims to have accessed the data. He says he did this by entering an unprotected server on the Akamai CDN where this Intel data is hosted. He comments that even many password protected ZIP files used very simple ‘intel123’ passwords.
Capture of Till Kottmann’s alleged conversation with the hacker. Via ZDNet. —
What kind of data has been published
Till Kottmann has a Telegram channel where he posts leaked and generally obtained company documents due to poor security management. On this occasion he has analyzed files that have been posted on Intel and summarizes what has been found.
Capture of Intel documents in MEGA. Via ZDNet. —
Indicates that they are mainly Intel guides for its chips and tools, as well as diagrams and sample codes. Kabylake BIOS reference codes or for example camera driver binaries made for SpaceX have also been found. The documents reach also reveal some products not yet launched como Tiger Lake through roadmaps and firmware for platforms not yet launched. For credit, there are even marketing templates from Intel.
While the leak is not (relatively) serious, the question now is what remains to be made public whether Till Kottmann’s claims are true that there are still leaks to publish. At the moment the data leaked so far is already circulating in Internet repositories and cloud storage such as MEGA.
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