According to Intel in a May 2019 interview with [[Wired.com|Wired]], Intel's researchers discovered the vulnerabilities in 2018 before anyone else.<ref name="Greenberg" /> Other researchers had agreed to keep the exploit confidential as well since 2018.<ref name="mdsattacks.com">{{cite web|url=https://mdsattacks.com|title=MDS attacks|website=mdsattacks.com|accessdate=20 May 2019}}</ref>
On 14 May 2019, avarious groupgroups of security researchers, amongst others from Austria's [[Graz University of Technology]] and, Belgium's [[KU Leuven|Catholic University of Leuven]], and Netherland's [[Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]], in a [[responsible disclosure|disclosure coordinated]] with Intel, published the discovery of the MDS vulnerabilities in Intel microprocessors, which they named Fallout, RIDL and ZombieLoad.<ref name="Greenberg" /><ref name="zombieloadattack.com">{{cite web|url=https://zombieloadattack.com/|title=ZombieLoad Attack|website=zombieloadattack.com|accessdate=14 May 2019}}</ref> Three of the TU Graz researchers were from the group who had discovered [[Meltdown (security vulnerability)|Meltdown]] and [[Spectre (security vulnerability)|Spectre]] the year before.<ref name="Greenberg" />
