Ruthless hackers have leaked 71,355 email addresses and password hashes of Nvidia employees

The California-based graphics card manufacturer Nvidia has to deal with yet another issue which appears to be a direct result of a recent cyberattack. Just days after the South American hacker collective Lapsus$ demanded a steep price of US$1 million for the release of an LHR unlock tool which supposedly restores the full hashrate cryptomining performance of GeForce GPUs like the RTX 3070, internal data of Nvidia employees has now surfaced on the web.

According to HaveIBeenPwned, Lapsus$ has leaked a total of 71,355 email addresses and according NTLM password hashes, some of which have already been cracked. This leak could possibly be the result of an ultimatum in which Lapsus$ demanded Nvidia to make the source code of its graphics drivers publicly available by the end of this week. However, the incredibly high number of credentials is somewhat surprising, as Nvidia currently only employs around 20,000 people worldwide according to Tom's Hardware.

Purportedly, the data in question could also include information of former Nvidia employees, or possibly consist of multiple sets of credentials of each affected Nvidia employee. It remains unclear if these leaked email addresses and password hashes can indeed be used for further malicious purposes, or if the GPU manufacturer has already taken the appropriate measures to secure all of its employee's accounts.

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