
Kernelware requested payment in XMR (Monero), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency, and suggested using a middleman to ensure a successful sale.
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The alleged data also contained Replacement Digital Product Keys, ISO files, Windows System Deployment Image files, BIOS components, and ROM files. The list of items included confidential slides and presentations, technical manuals, Windows Imaging Format files, binaries of various types, backend infrastructure data, product model documentation, and information about phones, tablets, laptops, and other devices. Post on the hacker forum (Image credit: ) The hacker also shared a sample of the stolen data to prove its authenticity. In a post on a hacker forum that surfaced as an alternative to the popular and now-seized Raidforums, Kernelware offered to sell the data trove to interested parties, saying that it contained a wide range of valuable files and documents.

This article has been updated with a breach confirmation statement from Acer Inc.Īcer Inc., a major global technology company based in Taiwan, is facing a potential data breach from a hacker going by the alias “Kernelware.” The hacker is claiming responsibility for a major data breach at Acer Inc., a leading multinational company based in Taiwan that designs and sells hardware and electronics products.Īccording to Kernelware, the alleged breach occurred in mid-February 2023 and resulted in the theft of a vast amount of sensitive information, totalling 160GB of 655 directories and 2869 files. The hacker claims that it took them days to go through the list of what had been allegedly breached.
