Apple supplier Foxconn has confirmed a cyberattack on several of its US factories, after a ransomware group claimed to have stolen confidential files from Apple projects as part of the hack.
The Nitrogen group published the breach on its data leak site this week, claiming to have seized 8 TB of data spread across more than 11 million files. In addition to the allegedly stolen Apple files, Nitrogen says the trove includes internal project documentation and technical drawings related to Intel, Google, Dell and Nvidia.
Foxconn confirmed the intrusion to The register Tuesday, but the vendor did not respond to questions about whether customer data had actually been collected. A company spokesperson said its cybersecurity team had activated response measures to maintain production and that all of its affected factories were returning to normal operations.
Foxconn assembles a wide range of Apple products, but Apple takes the secrecy of unreleased products extremely seriously, and suppliers generally receive only the technical information necessary for their specific role in manufacturing.
Nitrogen is believed to be an offshoot of leaked Russian-based Conti 2 ransomware code. If so, the stolen files may be inaccessible. Coveware researchers warned in February that a bug in the group’s ESXi encryptor made file recovery impossible, even for victims who pay.
This is not the first time Foxconn has been targeted by ransomware gangs. The manufacturer had already been affected by LockBit in 2022 and 2024.
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