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Nvidia Fires Back at Hackers, Encrypting Stolen Data and Ransomed Their Systems

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  EVERYONE!!! NVIDIA ARE CRIMINALS!!!!!!!!
  
  SOME DAYS AGO WE CONDUCTED A ATTACK AGAINST NVIDIA AND
  STOLE 1TB OF CONFIDENTIAL DATA!!!!!!
  
  TODAY WE WOKE UP AND WE FOUND NVIDIA SCUM HAD ATTACKED  
  *OUR* MACHINE WITH RANSOMWARE........
  
  LUCKILY WE HAD A BACKUP BUT WHY THE FUCK THEY THINK THEY  
  CAN CONNECT TO OUR PRIVATE MACHINE AND INSTALL  
  RANDOMWARE!!!!!!!!!

lol.

Is this the basis for the "hack-bacl" story or did Nvidia confirm that?

Because it looks to me a kid was trying to joke on social media.

And also, what hacker uses Windows?

NOT a bible verse:

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; For I am the meanest son-of-bitch in the valley.

I gotta respect whatever quick thinking engineer flipped the script, and whatever corporate miracle that placed such a highly competent individual in a position where they could do something like this.

You wouldn't think this skill set would be common at Nvidia- bravo!

My BS detector is glowing red. Yeeeaaahhh. Hackers are going to announce they got hacked in ALL CAPS!!! along with the screen caps to prove it. WE ARE SO STUPID!!! I wouldn't click on that stuff.

Seriously, everyone wants to legalese this and determine who is at fault, but for a minute let’s just enjoy the fact that a bit company was able to quickly retaliate against hackers.

now private companies are allowed to hack? Or?

No, but who's going to prosecute?

The hackers attributed the reverse attack to NVidia but where's the proof? I doubt NVidia is going to put out a press release (if they committed the alleged act.)

What's the ransomware team going to do? Complain to the authorities? Sue?

No but the beauty of this is that Nvidia is absolutely going to deny this and in order for them to get someone to prosecute and show proof that Nvidia hacked them back they would have to turn themselves over for their own crime which they obviously aren't going to do.

They could always do a plea bargain for immunity. After all, no one wants corporate scale misbehavior like that.

I also think theres no proof that any of this happened, only post on twitter that claims someone has photo of south african group claim it hacked nvidia.

At which point does a hack become criminal?

Probing defences? Breaching defences? Accessing your own, stolen data? Downloading it? Downloading everything else?

If I see the guy who stole my car, nick the car keys from his pocket and drive off, is that theft? What if my car also has his wallet, and I drive off with that?

Not for want of making it legal. The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (ACDC) has been proposed to the House of Representatives several times. It would make retaliatory hacking legal under some scheme. It has never made it out of committee.

In US terms, that means one or a small group of Representatives (in this case 18) proposed such a law. It got referred to the subgroup in charge of vetting proposed laws in that specialty area (in this case the subcommittee of Judiciary called the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security). From there, he wasn't able to convince them to even green light it for a full vote in the House of Representatives, let alone going to the Senate or becoming a law.

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