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Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Till Kottmann, a Swiss IT consultant, posted on Twitter a link to a file sharing service today that contains what an anonymous source claims is a portion of Intel's crown jewels: A 20GB folder of confidential Intel intellectual property. The leaker dubbed the release the "Intel exconfidential Lake Platform Release ;)."&nbsp;Update: Intel has responded to Tom's Hardware with an official statement:"We are investigating this situation. The information appears to come from the Intel Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for use by our customers, partners and other external parties who have registered for access. We believe an individual with access downloaded and shared this data."Intel's Resource and Design Center is a website dedicated to providing the company's partners with NDA documentation for product integration purposes. Reports are also cropping up that some of the files are marked with NDA license agreements to "Centerm Information Co. Ltd., a Chinese company established and existing under the laws of the People's Republic of China," meaning this company could have been also hacked.The folder appears to have been originally posted by an anonymous source that claims more is coming soon, and while we don't know the exact specifics of the folder's contents, we have verified that it does exist. In fact, the title of many of the documents do correlate to the list of purported information posted by the leaker:Kottman, who has been behind other data dumps of proprietary information in the past, claims the hacker "breached" Intel, which the company denies. Kottman also said the files were obtained earlier this year, adding "most of the things here have NOT been published ANYWHERE before and are classified as confidential, under NDA or Intel Restricted Secret." The source says more files will be shared soon, and "the future parts of this leak will have even juicier and more classified stuff."Interestingly, Kottman also notes "If you find password protected zips in the release the password is probably either "Intel123" or "intel123". This was not set by me or my source, this is how it was acquired from Intel."The posts encourage downloaders to look for mentions of 'backdoors' in some of the Intel source code, and even provides a sample clip of one such listing, but we aren't sure of the intentions behind the listings in the code.The link is being widely distributed on Twitter, but it might be best to exercise caution – downloading any file from an untrusted source is always a risk.&nbsp;Show more commentsGet instant access to breaking news, in-depth reviews and helpful tips.Thank you for signing up to Tom's Hardware. You will receive a verification email shortly.There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again.MOST POPULARMOST SHARED1234512345

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Till Kottmann, a Swiss IT consultant, posted on Twitter a link to a file sharing service today that contains what an anonymous source claims is a portion of Intel's crown jewels: A 20GB folder of confidential Intel intellectual property. The leaker dubbed the release the "Intel exconfidential Lake Platform Release ;)."&nbsp;Update: Intel has responded to Tom's Hardware with an official statement:"We are investigating this situation. The information appears to come...

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