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Open-Sourced by Extortionists: Novo Nordisk’s Drug-Discovery AI Hits the Torrents

The Fulcrumsec extortion crew has released a second tranche of data stolen from Novo Nordisk. It is the drug maker’s complete enterprise Hugging Face environment: 30 trained AI models, 70 datasets and half a terabyte of proprietary cell-imaging microscopy, 1.05 terabytes in all, distributed by torrent. The group says it fielded interest from buyers in China and chose to publish everything instead. It is still withholding personal data on 46,843 Danish healthcare professionals and more than 500,000 clinical investigators. A decade of research went around the world in a weekend.

Source: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/extortion-gang-leaks-novo-nordisks-ai-ml-ecosystem-a-32553

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