Apple's Secret Product Plans Stolen in Luxshare Cyberattack (macrumors.com) 11
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Apple supplier subject to a major cyberattack last month was China's Luxshare, it has now emerged. More than 1TB of confidential Apple information was reportedly stolen.
It was reported in December that one of Apple's assemblers suffered a significant cyberattack that may have compromised sensitive production-line information and manufacturing data linked to Apple. The specific company targeted, the scope of the breach, and its operational impact were unclear until now. The attack was first revealed on RansomHub's dark web leak site on December 15, 2025, where the group claimed it had encrypted internal Luxshare systems and exfiltrated large volumes of confidential data belonging to the company and its customers.
The attackers warned that the information would be publicly released unless Luxshare contacted them to negotiate, and accused the company of attempting to conceal the incident. According to the attackers' claims, the exfiltrated material includes vital files such as detailed 3D CAD product models and high-precision geometric files, 2D manufacturing drawings, mechanical component designs, circuit board layouts, and internal engineering PDFs. The group added that the large archives include Apple product data as well as information belonging to Nvidia, LG, Tesla, Geely, and other major clients.
It was reported in December that one of Apple's assemblers suffered a significant cyberattack that may have compromised sensitive production-line information and manufacturing data linked to Apple. The specific company targeted, the scope of the breach, and its operational impact were unclear until now. The attack was first revealed on RansomHub's dark web leak site on December 15, 2025, where the group claimed it had encrypted internal Luxshare systems and exfiltrated large volumes of confidential data belonging to the company and its customers.
The attackers warned that the information would be publicly released unless Luxshare contacted them to negotiate, and accused the company of attempting to conceal the incident. According to the attackers' claims, the exfiltrated material includes vital files such as detailed 3D CAD product models and high-precision geometric files, 2D manufacturing drawings, mechanical component designs, circuit board layouts, and internal engineering PDFs. The group added that the large archives include Apple product data as well as information belonging to Nvidia, LG, Tesla, Geely, and other major clients.
Completely "Accidental" (Score:3)
China is the world leader in IP theft. It's a large reason for their economic rise over the past three decades.
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Usually I have a big problem with this... (Score:3)
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That's lousy reasoning. Being wealthy is not, in and of itself, sufficient grounds to justify an attack. Come up with a better reason. (There are a few that I could think of, and probably several that I haven't.)
OTOH, extortion is really difficult to justify. If they want to be justified, they should just release the data publicly, possibly after sanitizing it a bit.
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I hope that they release the blueprints for the Apple Car. I was always curious what that was going to look like before they canceled it.
Re: Usually I have a big problem with this... (Score:2)
The Apple car was probably spherical, white or aluminium coloured, had only one control button and weighed about 250kg. Although electrically powered, it had no way to be recharged. Projected price would have been $100,000,000.
Re: Usually I have a big problem with this... (Score:2)
Of course there was a way for it to be charged.
There was a USB-C port on the bottom.
An inside job? (Score:2)
What if you were China and didn't like American companies being successful? Wouldn't that be an incentive to leak the information yourself?