The hacker organization LAPSUS$, which claims to have stolen 1TB of data from chip maker Nvidia, claims that the company has also found a way to circumvent the restriction placed on Ethereum (ETH) miners.
Nvidia has taken a measure that restricts the use of these cards for cryptocurrency mining in order to avoid any supply problems in the new graphics cards it produces.
The organization known as LAPSUS$ enforced this restriction based on information it stole from Nvidia. to disable He claimed to have found a software and put it up for sale.
In a statement made by the organization on Telegram, “We wanted to help both the mining and gaming community. Going for an update on Nvidia’s GeoForce RTX 30-series, [madencilik] We demand that the restriction be lifted.” it said.
In a statement shared with the press by Nvidia, the company on February 23 It was stated that a cyber attack was organized and the company took some additional security measures after this attack.
Speaking on the subject, an Nvidia spokesperson said, “[Saldırganların]We know that the company got some employee information in our system and some information belonging to Nvidia and started leaking it on the internet.” said.
Nvidia continues to examine the effects of the attack at this stage.
After the mining restriction on graphics cards, Nvidia started to produce some mining chips only for miners. The company purchased 105 million of these chips in the third quarter of 2021; It generated $24 million in revenue in its fourth quarter.