Intel’s latest financial filing with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) reveals that the company was a major target in a sophisticated hacking attack in January, a risk not previously cited in the company’s quarterly filings.
“One recent and sophisticated incident occurred in January 2010 around the same time as the recently publicized security incident reported by Google,” the company states in its Form 10-K Annual Report. “We seek to detect and investigate these security incidents and to prevent their recurrence, but in some cases we might be unaware of an incident or its magnitude and effects.”
Such attacks, the company says, “are sometimes successful.”
The chip-making giant says that it regularly faces attempts to penetrate its systems, which may represent industrial espionage or efforts to harm the company.
Intel, however, made no comments about the impact of the successful attacks.
It’s not clear how alarmed organizations should be by such attacks, given that Intel’s acknowledgment comes as a matter of regulatory compliance.
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