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2012 — NVIDIA: A security breach affected Nvidia's developer forums, 400K records

2012 400.0K records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

A security breach affected Nvidia's developer forums. Hashed passwords and other sensitive information may have been obtained.  Public information such as birthdays, gender, and location may have been exposed. People who used the forums were given temporary passwords and instructed to choose a new forum password.UPDATE (07/13/2012): A Nvidia representative said that its forum has 290,000 registered accounts, its DevZone site has 100,000 accounts, and its research site has 1,200 accounts.

Root cause

Hacking

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