Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake root codification which includes BIOS files and much has reportedly been leaked online pursuing a large hack.

Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake CPU Source Code Reportedly Leaked Online Following Hack

VX-Underground has tweeted that the root codification to the Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs has been leaked online. Intel's Alder Lake CPUs were released past twelvemonth connected the 4th of November, 2021 & the information see 2.8 GB worthy of compressed root codification (5.86 GB successful full), and the leak allegedly came from 4chan. The codification basal is said to beryllium monolithic but the contents person yet to beryllium verified.

• Alder Lake CPU was released connected November 4, 2021
• The root codification is 2.8GB (compressed)
• Leak (allegedly) from 4chan
• We person not reviewed the entirety of the codification base, it is massive

The root codification to the Intel Alder Lake has been leaked online.

* Alder Lake CPU was released November 4, 2021
* Source codification is 2.8GB (compressed)
* Leak (allegedly) from 4chan
* We person not reviewed the entirety of the codification base, it is massive

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) October 8, 2022

wow, is that Intel Alder Lake BIOS root code?
unbelievable, 4chan hackers are backmost astatine it.https://t.co/F899yPYwdY

— freak (@glowingfreak) October 8, 2022

In a 2nd tweet, glowingfreak posted a GitHub nexus that shows the BIOS files & was shared 8 days ago. Based connected the files, it looks similar the information and files are mostly related to BIOS and chipsets & it's not officially known if this hack happened astatine Intel oregon immoderate different vendor specified arsenic a large OEM since determination are documents that notation to Lenovo's "Feature Tag Test Information". Whether oregon not the files were obtained by hacking Intel oregon their partner, they are inactive precise important and tin origin large and large occupation for the bluish team.

This won't beryllium the archetypal hack of its kind. NVIDIA, AMD, and Gigabyte person each been hacked successful caller times. NVIDIA was hacked backmost successful aboriginal 2022 with respective documents and root codes for aboriginal technologies leaking out. AMD was deed by a Ransomware attack and 450 GB worthy of information was each but stolen. Even Gigabyte besides had 112 GB of data which included confidential documents for Intel and AMD products hacked. The accusation gave distant details for next-gen GPUs and CPUs that each 3 vendors were moving on.

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