About two years ago, Invedia, the world's most valuable chip company was the victim of a major hack.

Well, developing news tonight on a mysterious overseas hacking group targeting major tech companies.

And video, one of the biggest chipmakers around the world got hacked last Friday.

And a massive trove of data was leaked onto the internet.

Our colleague Bob McMillan was following the story.

I learned of this attack via Twitter and it was not like anything I'd really ever

seen before. So there was a hacking group that not a lot of people had heard about.

And they showed up one day and said that they had broken into NVIDIA

and they were like super loud about it, like bragging about it.

They claimed to have all kinds of source code and

schematics and basically proprietary data that would be of great interest to

like a rival chipmaker. But then ultimately these hackers dumped a bunch of data and at that

point it was very clear that they had broken into NVIDIA. Pulling off a hack on a company as big and

secure as NVIDIA is already a feat. But Bob was even more surprised

when he learned who was behind the attack.

It turns out that one of the people behind the hack was Arian Kirtage, who was a 17-year-old hacker.

And cybersecurity investigators say that Kirtaj has been involved in illegal online activity

since he was 11.

Bob McMillan, what were you doing when you were 11?

Oh, I was playing D&D and I was definitely playing video games big time.

Unlike Bob, Aaron Cartage was taking his gaming to a more advanced level, because he was also

apparently starting to hack. By 17, Kirtage had become one of the most infamous hackers in the world,

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