Taiwanese tech major Acer has confirmed that its servers in India have been hacked, with 60GB of users’ data being accessed by hackers. This is the second data breach the company has faced this year.
Desordan, the group that claimed responsibility for the attack, said it had accessed personal customer information, corporate customer data, sensitive account information and data along with financial data, Hindustan Times reported.
The hacker group posted a video with files and databases containing records of 10,000 customers in India. The group also claimed that it has access to over 3,000 sets of login credentials of Acer retailers and distributors across India.
The report says that Acer has confirmed that it has detected a separate attack on its local after-sales service system in India and has introduced security protocols, followed by a full scan of its systems. The company further said that it is notifying all potentially affected customers in the country.
Acer said the attack has been reported to local law enforcement officials and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).
This is the second cyber security attack on Acer in seven months. The company’s systems were breached in March by a ransomware attack by Revil. At the time Acer was asked to pay a $50 million ransom for a decryptor to recover the stolen data. It was the largest ransom ever demanded by hackers at the time, before Reville asked Kasia to pay $70 million in the subsequent attack.
It is not yet clear whether Desordon has asked Acer to pay the ransom.
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