Bloomberg: hackers REvil stole blueprints of a new MacBook from Apple supplier and demand $ 50 million from the company

During yesterday's Apple presentation, a group of Russian hackers called REvil attacked one of its key suppliers.

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What is known

We are talking about the Taiwanese company Quanta ComputerInc, which makes computers for Apple and other major players. For example, HP, Facebook, Google, etc. According to the hackers, they infiltrated the system and stole drawings of an unannounced MacBook with a detailed description of the “stuffing.” The documents were created last month. That is, we are definitely talking about a new laptop model.

By the end of the presentationhackers have published 15 schematics and are now demanding a ransom of $50 million from Apple. If the company does not pay this amount by May 1, REvil will continue to share blueprints of the device. Quanta has already officially confirmed the attack, but Apple has not yet commented on the situation.

By the way, the hackers deliberately waited for yesterday's presentation, as they wanted to make sure that the new MacBook would not be shown there.

Let us remind you that yesterday at the Spring Loaded eventApple announced AirTag, an all-in-one iMac, an Apple TV 4K set-top box, an updated iPad Pro, a new Podcasts app, and a purple color scheme for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini.

Source: Bloomberg

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