Samsung was hit by a cyberattack in late July. Personal information of US customers was also stolen. The extent of damage is unknown. The notice shows that Samsung had to deal with a hacking attack in July. During the attack, hackers managed to steal personal information from US customers.
Exactly how the attack was not publicized. And it was also not disclosed how much data was stolen. According to Samsung, these are names, contacts, dates of birth and product registration information. Important personal data such as social security numbers (American system similar to citizen service numbers) would not have been stolen. Furthermore, the endpoints are not compromised.
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Since then, the tech giant has taken steps to prevent further damage. And it's also working with security experts and US authorities to repair the damage. Affected end users will be informed about the leak of their data.
Samsung's attack is not the first this year. In March of this year, the Lapsus$ hacker group managed to steal 190 GB of confidential data from the South Korean tech giant. This mainly concerned the source code of the software. The personal data of customers and/or employees was not stolen at that time.
