ASUS Announces Cyber Security Incident

TapTechNews June 26 - ASUS announced in the evening of June 25 that the company had a cyber security incident on that day, and some product data were suspected to have leaked and it was assessed that this incident would not have a significant impact on the company's operations and finances.

ASUS stated in the announcement that the main reason for this incident was that there was an incorrect parameter setting in some information systems.

After the incident, ASUS immediately inspected the relevant access logs and inventoried the potentially exposed information content based on the internally mastered misconfigured hosts. In the future, ASUS will continue to strengthen the internal information security management and publicity, and implement the security requirements for suppliers.

ASUS emphasized that the company will continuously implement supplier management and configuration management review, simultaneously review the existing information architecture and continue to improve, and also comprehensively enhance the information security awareness of its employees to jointly implement the protection of the confidentiality and integrity of data to ensure information security.

TapTechNews found in previous reports that Gigabyte and Clevo were respectively attacked by hackers in 2021 and 2024, both resulting in relatively serious confidential document leakage incidents.

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