Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-03-07 00:00:00
Affected organization: Acer
Affected country: Taiwan (Province of China)
Industry: Manufacturing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Kernelware
Actor type: Hobbyist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Taiwanese computer giant Acer confirms that it suffered a data breach after threat actors hacked a server hosting private documents used by repair technicians and leaked 160GB of data.