acerconfirmed that the hacker group Desorden has taken over their servers. Desordenmanaged to steal the personal information of millions of Acer customers. The size of this data is at least 60 gigabyte is stated to be. Here are the details of the cyber attack against Acer.
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The cyber attack against Acer was first announced by Desorden.
Theft of personal information was first reported by hackers and later confirmed by Acer. Desorden, Acer IndiaIt managed to access its servers located in . The hacker group stated that the number of those affected by this cyber attack has reached millions.
The Desorden hacker group does not fail to prove this event for its purposes. As a first step, the group has released more than one hundred thousand accounts of Acer private customer data. It is a matter of curiosity whether Desorden will market the other data he has in the deep waters of the internet or use it as a trump card against the Acer company.
Acer executives had an extraordinary meeting right after this event. It took extensive security measures and went through a full scan of all its data. The company then began to inform its users, whose data was thought to have been stolen, one by one. acer, Privacy AffairsHe made a statement to The statement claims that it will not affect the company’s business continuity. But there is no doubt that the timing of this event is pretty bad for Acer. So much so that the company faced the second biggest cyber attack as of this year.
Acer in early 2021 REvil It was also hacked by a hacker group. REvil made its stance clear by demanding ransom from Acer. The data stolen by the hacker group was very important information such as customers’ bank information and financial data.
One of the things that made this event interesting was the demand of REvil group as a ransom. group’s request 50 million dollars a cryptocurrency worth XMR was his coin. Acer company, the event inconceivable had accepted it. And so it is known to this day in the hacker world largest ransom demand it paid off.
But despite these two major events, 2021 was a successful year for the company. CompanyWindows 11 It became one of the first brands in this field by starting the sale of pre-loaded computers.
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