About 20GB of Intel’s confidential data appears online

About 20GB of data from chip designer Intel has appeared online, including confidential documentation about processors. The data comes from its Resource And Design Center, according to the company.

Developer Tillie Kottmann has revealed the existence of the documents and says they came to him through an anonymous source. Kottmann previously published source codes from multiple companies. More dumps would follow after this one with even more documentation. There is a list of things that would be included in the 20GB download. Below that are roadmaps, but also ‘(very horrible) Kabylake FDK training videos’.

Intel confirms to Bleeping Computer that this is internal documentation and suspects that someone from a third party with access to documentation from the Resource And Design Center has downloaded it.

The hacker who spoke to Kottmann says he found an Intel server on a CDN without proper security via a scan. With a Python script, the hacker would have looked at files and folders that do not require a password or that work with default passwords.