{"id":244048,"date":"2026-05-08T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/nvidia-confirms-geforce-now-data-breach-affecting-armenian-users\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:55:10","slug":"nvidia-confirms-geforce-now-data-breach-affecting-armenian-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/nvidia-confirms-geforce-now-data-breach-affecting-armenian-users\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA confirms GeForce NOW data breach affecting Armenian users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/nvidia-confirms-geforce-now-data-breach-affecting-armenian-users\/\">NVIDIA confirms GeForce NOW data breach affecting Armenian users<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/nvidia-confirms-geforce-now-data-breach-affecting-armenian-users\/\">https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/nvidia-confirms-geforce-now-data-breach-affecting-armenian-users\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 12:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bleepingcomputer.com\">www.bleepingcomputer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<p>NVIDIA has confirmed in a statement for BleepingComputer that GeForce NOW user information has been exposed in a data breach.<\/p>\n<p>The gaming and hardware giant has clarified that the impact is limited to Armenia, and was caused by a compromise of the infrastructure operated by a regional partner.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u00a0added that its own network was not impacted by the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investigation found no impact on NVIDIA-operated services. The issue is limited to systems run by a third-party GeForce NOW Alliance partner based in Armenia. \u00a0We are working closely with the partner to support their investigation and resolution. Impacted users will be notified by GFN.am,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes in response to a post last week on a hacker forum from a\u00a0threat actor using the ShinyHunters nickname, claiming to have breached the GeForce NOW service and stolen millions of user records.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ShinyHunters actor who published the breach on the hacker forum\u00a0is believed to be an imposter.<\/p>\n<p>According to the threat actor, the stolen information includes full names, email addresses, usernames, dates of birth, membership status, and 2FA\/TOTP status.<\/p>\n<p>The threat actor also posted samples of the stolen data and offered the full database for $100,000 paid in Bitcoin or Monero.<\/p>\n<p>The NVIDIA GeForce NOW cloud gaming service\u00a0lets users stream to their systems games running on more powerful hardware\u00a0using\u00a0NVIDIA GPUs in a datacenter.<\/p>\n<p>GFN.am is the Armenian regional operator for GeForce NOW, responsible for operating NVIDIA\u2019s service in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Alliance partner environments can operate independent authentication systems, local customer databases, regional billing platforms, and locally managed infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>A statement posted by GFN.am confirms a cybersecurity\u00a0incident that took place between March 20 and 26 and exposed\u00a0the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full name (if using a Google account)<\/li>\n<li>Email address<\/li>\n<li>Phone number (if registered through a&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/nvidia-confirms-geforce-now-data-breach-affecting-armenian-users\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NVIDIA confirms GeForce NOW data breach affecting Armenian users https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/nvidia-confirms-geforce-now-data-breach-affecting-armenian-users\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-08 12:18:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/content\/hl-images\/2026\/05\/08\/NVIDIA.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24,35,34],"class_list":["post-244048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacker","tag-threat-actor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244050,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244048\/revisions\/244050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}