A Total Of 160GB Of Acer's Secret Data Was Successfully Hacked, Just Know After Being Sold By Hackers!

Acer confirmed that there was a bad actor or hacker who broke into one of his servers. (acer dock photo)

JAKARTA - Acer has just confirmed that there are bad actors or hackers who broke into one of its servers. The company only realized after the 160GB database containing classified information was sold on the dark web.

According to the Taiwan-based Personal Computer (PC) maker, one of its document servers is being used by repair technicians.

"While our investigation is ongoing, there is currently no indication that consumer data is stored on the server," Acer's spokesman told The Register, quoted on Friday, March 10.

Acer's announcement came after cybercriminals using the name "Kernelware" began selling 160GB of data stolen from companies in BreachForums.

The data includes 655 dipers and 2,869 files. According to the perpetrators, the stolen data includes slides and secret presentations, staff technical manuals, Windows Imaging Format files, binaries, infrastructure data backends, confidential product documents, Digital Product Key Substitutions, ISO files, Windows System Implementation image files, BIOS components, and ROM files.

To prove the data is valid, Kernelware shared screenshots of technical schemes for Acer V206HQL views, documents, definitions of BIOS, and classified documents.

The bad actors stressed that they would only sell through intermediaries and receive Monero cryptocurrencies, to ensure transactions would not be easy to track.

This is not the first time Acer has experienced a security incident. In March 2021, computer makers experienced a ransomware attack in which cybercriminals demanded a ransom of 50 million US dollars.

Seven months later, its full-sale system in India was also hacked by a hacking group, resulting in more than 60GB of the data being stolen.