Remember when an Apple employee accidentally left a prototype iPhone in a Silicon Valley bar about a decade ago? Now, imagine that scenario, but instead, the employee leaves a thumb drive containing the confidential information of every resident of a large city.

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers and computer hardware manufacturer, second only to Intel, has announced that it is investigating a cyberattack incident which left 450GB of company data stolen.

According to BleepingComputer, the extortion group "RansomHouse" had made mention on their Telegram social media account that they had attained and would be offering for sale data from "a well-known three-letter company that starts with the letter A."

The report goes on to state that while the data is listed as stolen on January 5th, 2022, that was only the date that the threat actors finally lost access to AMD's servers.

According to a report by the Association for Advancing Automation, businesses have ordered 40% more workplace robots in 2022 than the same time period in 2021. This comes as a national worker shortage hits the retail, transportation, and manufacturing industries.