Intel announced today that it fell victim to what many believe to be the same exploits that compromised Google and Adobe in January, which kicked off an international firestorm regarding China’s role in Internet security.
“We regularly face attempts by others to gain unauthorized access through the Internet to our information technology systems by, for example, masquerading as authorized users or surreptitious introduction of software. One recent and sophisticated incident occurred in January 2010 around the same time as the recently publicized security incident reported by Google,” the company noted in its 10-K SEC filing.
Intel spokesman Chuck Malloy followed the filing with a statement, which noted that Intel “did not see the kind of broad-based attack as described by Google,” and went on to point out that hackers try to penetrate their defenses all the time. Malloy also commented that Intel had not lost any data in the attacks, and that his company had only remarked in their filing about the Google hack because it had been highly publicized.
The attacks on Google and Adobe are popularly known as “Operation Aurora” and purportedly affected them and 32 other companies. Other companies rumored to be targeted by the hackers include Yahoo! and now, Intel.
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