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The Apple partner was blackmailed by hackers immediately after the Spring Loaded event

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A group of Russian hackers demanded a $ 50 million ransom on Apple’s partner company before May 1 in exchange for data they stole about new designs.
While Apple was introducing a series of new products in the Spring Loaded event on the morning of April 21 (Vietnam time), the group of hackers REvil claimed to have hacked into the computer network of Quanta Computer and stole some blueprints. new Apple products.

Quanta is headquartered in Taiwan (China), is the main MacBook manufacturing partner for Apple. The company is also a partner of HP, Facebook, and Alphabet (the parent company of Google). Accordingly, when the event just ended, REvil posted an article containing 15 pictures detailing a device that is supposed to be a MacBook designed in March 2021. Images include the part number, specific sizes and capacities, detailing many of the parts that work inside the Apple laptop. One of the images signed by designer John Andreadis. REvil has asked Apple to pay a ransom of $ 50 million by May 1. Previously, this group posted information on “Happy Blog” – where hackers announced their “victory”. REvil is said to have made an agreement with Quanta before but did not get the victim’s consent, then the new hacker group released the records on the day of the Apple event. Quanta, for its part, admitted the company had suffered a hacker attack but did not detail whether any data was stolen. The Apple partner also reported to law enforcement about the day-to-day attack and said it had immediately activated an information security defense system, upgraded its infrastructure to protect data. Whether. Apple representatives have not released any official comment on the incident. according to Bloomberg