20 GB of documents labeled “confidential” or “confidential secrets” were stolen Intel and published on the MEGA platform by Till Kottmann, a Swiss computer engineer who claims to have received them from an anonymous source. The Santa Clara chipmaker has initiated an investigation into the leak. The subtraction of the data seems to have been carried out in recent months, at the moment it is not yet completely clear how.
Intel Leak: confidential and confidential documents online
Kottmann operates a rather popular Telegram channel that deals with this type of incident. He also states that it is not over here: it would be only the first of a series that concerns confidential information belonging to the Californian group. What leaked describes intellectual property related to the design of some chipsets, from technical specifications to operating guidelines, as well as manuals for CPUs designed from 2016 onwards.
There are BIOS references, debugging tools, roadmaps describing product marketing plans, drivers for imaging components built on behalf of SpaceX, firmware for a never-released platform, training videos, emulators and InDesign templates used by marketing people. None of the documents analyzed seems to be linked to employees or customers, at least among those distributed, but it remains to be seen whether the violator was able to reach out to other material that was not released.
For its part, Intel denies having suffered a compromise of computer systems, attributing the responsibility for the gesture to someone with access to their Resource and Design Center, a portal that cannot be visited by the public where the company makes material relating to its products available to partners. This is the declaration entrusted to the ZDNet site.
We are investigating what happened. The information seems to come from the Intel Resource and Design Center which hosts data made available to our customers, partners and other external subjects registered for access. We believe that a person downloaded them and then shared them.
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