The company hasn’t clarified the extent of the leak yet, but the images that REvil has leaked so far include plans to redesign the iMac that was recently revealed by Apple. REvil has a history of similar ransomware attacks, as Bleeping Computer notes, in which the group has also carried out similar hacks on Acer and other companies in the past several months, but the Quanta attack – due to its connection to Apple and the ability to detect undisclosed Apple devices – is the target.
Quanta confirmed that its servers had been compromised in a statement cited by Bloomberg, and commented, “Quanta Computer’s information security team has worked with outside IT experts in response to cyber attacks on a small number of Quantas servers.” However, the company emphasized, “There is no material impact on The company’s business operations “as a result of the breach. To Apple, after Quanta refused to pay a $ 50 million ransom for the data, the group hopes Apple will pay the ransom by May 1, and has promised to keep posting new images from the leak daily until that is done. The group had already started posting the stolen photos on April 20, timing them specifically to coincide with the latest “Spring Loaded” event. The leak, first reported by The Record, was carried out by REvil, a Russian hacker group also known as Sodinokebe.
A report by The Verge revealed that Apple had been targeted in a $ 50 million ransomware attack after a raft of engineering and manufacturing schemes for current and future products were stolen from Quanta, a Taiwan-based company that makes MacBooks and other products for Apple.
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