The gang claims to have stolen 450 gigabytes of data from the global chipmaker.
According to a report from Restore Privacy, the e-crime gang RansomHouse claims to have come into possession of a large trove ofAMD's data and has now published some of it to their "leak site" Cybercrime gangs use such sites to extort money from data theft victims. According to the outlet, the data seems to include network files, system information, as well asAMD passwords.
It is not clear how the data was stolen, though the gang has speculated that the data was taken because employees of the company had bad passwords.
There is a lot in these words for the crowd. RansomHouse wrote on its website that it seems those words are still beautiful when technology giants use simple passwords to protect their networks. It's a shame that those are real passwords used by employees of the company, but a bigger shame that the security department of the company gets a lot of money because of those passwords.
After viewing some of the data, it appears that the login credentials revealed in the apparent breach include some of the worst passwords in the world. If that is the case, about five minutes of password guessing would have aided a cybercriminal.
The company said that it was aware of a bad actor who claimed to be in possession of stolen data and that an investigation was underway. It is not clear whether the gang has asked for a ransom in return for the information, or if the gang is just leaking the company's data for the hell of it.
RansomHouse seems to have first appeared towards the end of the year. While it seems like it's a gang of crooks, it's not actually a gang of crooks at all, it's just a bunch of crooks who steal data and extort businesses with hijacked information. The gang previously took credit for hacking targets that were not well known in the U.S., such as a large African shopping chain and a liquor and gaming authority.
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