Acer confirms hack: Taiwanese hardware vendor Acer has confirmed a security breach after a hacker began selling more than 160GB of data they stole from one of the company's servers. According to the seller, an individual going by the name of Kernelware, the stolen data includes details about the Acer BIOS, confidential presentations, product documentation, ROM, and other binary files. Acer says the files originated from a server for repair technicians.
Facebook's LLaMA leak: LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI), a collection of large language models developed internally at Meta, was leaked on 4chan last week, marking the first time when a major tech company's proprietary AI model has leaked in full. Prior to the leak, Meta, Facebook's parent company, had provided access to the LLaMA model to select researchers from the AI community. While the leaker hid their identity using the "llamanon" 4chan username, AnalyticsIndiaMag notes that the LLaMA torrent file contained a unique identifier that would, theoretically, allow Meta to track down who received and leaked the files. Motherboard reported that Meta did not deny or confirm the leak, nor has it taken any steps to have the torrent removed.
LaunchZone crypto-heist: The LaunchZone cryptocurrency portal announced this week a compensation plan for users who lost funds in a hack that took place at the end of February. At the time, the company lost $700,000 following an exploit against one of its contracts that drained around 80% of the funds from its liquidity pools.