Massive Data Leak at Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) has initiated investigations into a 20 GB breach of its proprietary data and source code. The data breach is said to have taken place at the beginning of this year. The data is still available via BitTorrent feeds. According to a statement by the company spokeswoman, part of the leak is data that the company shares with its customers and partners as part of the NDA. According to the spokeswoman, however, the company's officials are not treating the incident as a network break. She added that Intel will investigate how up-to-date the data is, and said there is no evidence that any customer or personal information has fallen into the wrong hands. "We are investigating this situation," said company officials. "The information appears to have come from the Intel Resource and Design Center, which is hosting information for use by our customers, partners, and other outside parties who have registered for access. We believe that someone with access will download and use this information has passed on. The announcement of the data breach was first made on Twitter by IT consultant Tillie 1312 Kottmann #BLM, a Swiss software engineer. He found that most of the data had not been published anywhere and was classified as confidential data. Intel confirmed the leakage of data apparently from the Intel Resource and Design Center. The center houses the company's information for customers and partners that was collected during registration. The information is made available to users by the center under NDA. According to Kottmann, the leaked data was the "exonidential lake," referring to the inside name of its 10-nanometer chip platform. Most of the data leaked is confidential material that is used by the company's customers to design motherboards, BIOS, or other things compatible with Intel CPUs and other chips. Materials leaked include design, source code, test documents, and presentations. Many of the source codes and document packages apply to Intel CPU platforms. These platforms include Kaby Lake and the upcoming Tiger Lake. There is also information related to the Intel Management Engine, although much of it was already available to Intel developers.