Data workers Intel, Apple, Google captured in hack on Khronos Group

The forum of the Khronos Group, to which thousands of employees from Google, Intel and Apple are connected, has been hacked. As far as is known, the user data is in the hands of the hackers, but is currently not for sale or publicly viewable.

Vice subsidiary Motherboard managed to get hold of a sql file with almost 3000 accounts. The loot would consist of usernames, email addresses, unencrypted passwords, IP addresses and, in some cases, physical addresses. 18 of the 20 usernames and email addresses Motherboard entered as a test in the registration form were in use, according to the forum. In addition, the editors have received verification from three different affected persons that the data is correct.

In addition to Google, Intel and Apple, it would also include employees of EA, Panasonic, VMWare, IBM, Toshiba, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and more. Motherboard isn’t ruling out the possibility that the nearly 3,000 accounts they hold don’t represent the full loot. The accounts have serial numbers that go up to just under 7000. The Khronos Group itself has obtained a copy of the sql file from Motherboard, but has not commented further.

The Khronos Group is an American non-profit group that is responsible for, among other things, the development of open APIs such as OpenGL and Vulkan. Numerous large tech companies are affiliated with the group.