NVIDIA data breach: 71K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-03-02
In February 2022, microchip company NVIDIA suffered a data breach that exposed employee credentials and proprietary code. Impacted data included over 70k employee email addresses and NTLM password hashes, many of which were subsequently cracked and circulated within the hacking community. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords. The breach dates from Feb 23, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 2, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a NVIDIA account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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