NVIDIA Confirms GeForce NOW Partner Breach Exposed Armenian User Data

NVIDIA confirmed that personal information belonging to GeForce NOW users in Armenia was exposed after a breach at GFN.am, its regional alliance partner operating the service locally. GFN.am said attackers gained unauthorized access to a backend database between March and late March, with the intrusion reportedly first detected on May 2 and publicly disclosed on May 5. NVIDIA said its own network and NVIDIA-operated services were not affected, and no confirmed impact outside Armenia has been reported.

The exposed data may include names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and platform usernames, including full names for some users who signed in with Google and phone numbers for some who registered through a mobile operator. GFN.am said passwords were not compromised, but the breach followed claims by ShinyHunters, which allegedly advertised millions of GeForce NOW records for sale for $100,000 in cryptocurrency on a hacker forum. The company said it has fixed the root cause and added security controls, while affected users face heightened risks of phishing, SIM-swapping, and other social-engineering attacks.