Intel Hit With More Than 30 Lawsuits Over Security Flaws (reuters.com)

Intel said on Friday shareholders and customers had filed 32 class action lawsuits against the company in connection with recently-disclosed security flaws in its microchips. From a report: Most of the lawsuits -- 30 -- are customer class action cases that claim that users were harmed by Intel's "actions and/or omissions" related to the flaws, which could allow hackers to steal data from computers. Intel said in a regulatory filing it was not able to estimate the potential losses that may arise out of the lawsuits. Security researchers at the start of January publicized two flaws, dubbed Spectre and Meltdown, that affected nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ARM.

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Article being referred to is inaccurate

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure everyone reading this already knows the obvious, but AMD is not affected by Meltdown in any capacity. Please do not encourage the spread of this misinfo. It is important to understand what processors are safe and what processors are affected by Meltdown and Specter's 2 variants.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3246707/data-center/meltdown-and-spectre-how-much-are-arm-and-amd-exposed.html

Re:Is everyone else getting sued, too?

[behrooz0az]

Meltdown which is the worst of all and was probably done on purpose to cheat in benchmarks only hits Intel.

Re:Is everyone else getting sued, too?

[Killall -9 Bash]

The summary is fucking wrong, and the writer of it probably got paid by Intel.