Intel CPU Defect Lawsuit
Gibbs Law Group and co-counsel represent consumers in a class action lawsuit against Intel alleging that many of its CPUs have serious security flaws. On January 3, 2018, news reports broke that security researchers discovered two major security exploits in nearly all of Intel’s chips, used in many laptops and desktops. Although software makers attempted to create patches for these flaws, they significantly slow down performance when installed and may not provide complete protection.
If you own a laptop or computer with an Intel CPU, you may have a claim.
Intel CPU in your desktop, laptop or server?
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List of Intel Processors at risk
These Intel chips are alleged to have serious security flaws:
- Intel Core i3, all generations
- Intel Core i5, 1st generation through 8th generation
- Intel Core i7, 1st generation through 8th generation
Intel CPUs are used in many brands of laptops and desktops, including Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Apple Macbooks (until 2020).
Despite knowing about these flaws, Intel allegedly continued to sell and distribute these chips.
Intel chips still vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown flaws
As recently as May 2021, Ars Technica reports that researchers have found attacks that can still break through a vulnerability in Intel CPUs known as Spectre.
Both Spectre and Meltdown are major security vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs first described in 2018 by four independent teams of security researchers. According to the security researchers, all Intel CPUs are exploitable by Spectre and nearly all Intel CPUs made since 1995, except for Itanium chips and pre-2013 Atom chips, are exploitable by Meltdown.
As the complaint alleges, hardware flaws make all software built on top of it vulnerable. Though different operating systems like Microsoft and Linux have released patches to make Intel’s vulnerabilities harder to exploit, these patches often slow down computers “significantly” and they may not solve the security problems completely.
Many computer experts blame Intel for prioritizing speed and performance over security. According to The Guardian, Intel chips “were optimized for performance, without basic questions being asked about whether their design was secure.”
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