Nvidia confirms that it is investigating an 'incident' that is believed to be an attack on the internet.

Nvidia has confirmed the news outlets The Verge, Bloomberg, Reuters as well as other media outlets that it is investigating an "incident" that occurred just several hours before The Telegraph reported that the company that makes graphics chips suffered an enormous cyberattack that "completely affected" the internal systems of the company within the past two days.
"We are looking into an incident. Our commercial and business activities continue without interruption. We're still trying to determine the scope and nature of the incident and do not have any further details to provide at this moment," reads a statement through Nvidia spokesperson Hector Marinez.

According to The Telegraph's source, they don't suggest that Nvidia is in any way responsible for having information stolen or erased There's no evidence suggesting to suggest that this "incident" could be related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine however cyberattacks have been a part of the offensive. the internet infrastructure is also targeted in Ukraine.

Bloomberg has reported that it was a minor ransomware attack citing an "person who is familiar of the attack."

On Saturday, early in the morning DarkTracer, a dark web-based intelligence firm DarkTracer announced that Lapsus$ is a ransomware gang that was has been associated with the attack against Portugal's biggest television channel has taken the responsibility by leaking what they say are password hashes of Nvidia employees, and also claiming it has additional data, including source code and other information regarding RTX GPUs. Soufiane Tahiri later posted a announcement from the group on Twitter and claimed that they attempted to erase their personal data on an in-built virtual machine using the VPN and the device management platform that it utilizes. They claim that they have backups of the information they're threatening to leak. There's no evidence publicly that this an incident linked to Russia's military invasion.

If a company based in the United States like Nvidia was targeted, however, it may trigger an escalation by America. United States. "If Russia pursues cyberattacks against our businesses, our vital infrastructure, we're ready to take action," President Biden said in his address on Thursday.

The alleged attack may have destroyed Nvidia's emails but we did get Nvidia's announcement today via email from an Nvidia account.

Nvidia has also reportedly asked the journalists late on Wednesday night to delay an announcement that could be out on Thursday without offering any explanation. The timing of the announcement is similar to the time The Telegraph reports that Nvidia's systems were compromised.