Xbox Series X GPU Source Code Stolen, $100 Million Ransom Set

<p>Xbox Series X has been one of the main subjects to follow for gaming&comma; especially since it plans to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;xbox-series-x-could-launch-without-exclusives&sol;">launch this December<&sol;a>&period; The system&&num;8217&semi;s technical information has been slowly revealed to the public over time&comma; as well&period; Everything seems all good and well for Xbox fans&comma; right&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unfortunately&comma; this is not the case in the slightest&period; AMD&&num;8217&semi;s new range of Navi graphics chips&comma; the same ones used to power Xbox Series X&comma; is a product of expensive research and development effort&period; According to a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;torrentfreak&period;com&sol;amd-uses-dmca-to-mitigate-massive-gpu-source-code-leak-200325&sol;">TorrentFreak<&sol;a> report&comma; a hacker got their hands on the source code&comma; and wants a lot of money to return it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-155834 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;26125355&sol;XboxSeriesXTech&lowbar;HERO&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Xbox Series X GPU" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">What The Hacker Wants To Exchange For The Xbox Series X GPU<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>This report&&num;8217&semi;s information comes in the form of a DMCA notice sent to the development platform Github&period; The hacker goes by the alias of &&num;8220&semi;xxXsoullessXxx&&num;8221&semi;&comma; and is seeking a buyer for what she claims to be the source code for three key device types&comma; Navi 10&comma; Navi 21&comma; and the Xbox Series X GPU &&num;8220&semi;Arden&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Github has removed the repository at AMD&&num;8217&semi;s request soon after&period; You can read a copy of the request <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;github&period;com&sol;github&sol;dmca&sol;commit&sol;34de6ac08e6945540db25dd0cdbca4dc9c57146e">here<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TorrentFreak also reached out to the hacker themselves&period; xxXsoullessXxx explained that she &&num;8220&semi;found AMD Navi GPU hardware source codes in a hacked computer&&num;8221&semi; in November 2019&period; &&num;8220&semi;The user didn&&num;8217&semi;t take any effective action against the leak of the codes&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she added&comma; also explaining that it was extracted from an unprotected source&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>xxXsoullessXxx has valued this information at a quite steep &dollar;100 million&period; In addition&comma; the leaker also said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;If I get no buyer&comma; I will just leak everything&period;&&num;8221&semi; AMD took note of this&comma; too&comma; and released a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amd&period;com&sol;en&sol;corporate&sol;data-update">statement<&sol;a> regarding the leak&period; Their statement reads&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;At AMD&comma; data security and the protection of our intellectual property are a priority&period; In December 2019&comma; we were contacted by someone who claimed to have test files related to a subset of our current and future graphics products&comma; some of which were recently posted online&comma; but have since been taken down&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>While we are aware the perpetrator has additional files that have not been made public&comma; we believe the stolen graphics IP is not core to the competitiveness or security of our graphics products&period; We are not aware of the perpetrator possessing any other AMD IP&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>We are working closely with law enforcement officials and other experts as a part of an ongoing criminal investigation&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What do you think of our report of the Xbox Series X GPU being stolen&quest; Do you think that AMD will make headway in this investigation before long&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;