A group of cybercriminals claims to have stolen 450 GB of data from AMD by using simple passwords like "password"

The group of cybercriminals “RansomHouse“claims to have stolen 450 GB of data from AMD servers. To do this they would have taken advantage of the use of weak passwords. Despite the name of the group of attackersthe theft has been carried out without the use of malware or ransomware like the one used in other attacks, or like the one NVIDIA allegedly used against a group that had stolen data from its servers.

According to RestorePrivacythe group of cybercriminals have already published an example of the stolen data, in principle to be able to blackmail AMD with the payment of a certain amount of money to avoid the leak.

The group of attackers would have accessed the data by using simple weak passwords such as “password”

Hackers claim that have been able to break into AMD networks using passwords that are too simple. In fact, they comment that some passwords were the word “password” in English (password), and what is a “Shame on the company’s security department, which gets significant funding according to the documents we have in our hands, all thanks to these passwords”

The group of attackers had published a message on June 20 assuring that they had hacked a large company, but it has not been until now that the name of the attacked has been known. The date of the attack, according to the RansomHouse group itself, would have been January 5.

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