Samsung says hackers obtained some customer data in newly disclosed breach

guest · Sep 3, 2022

The company says Social Security numbers and payment details weren't accessed.
By Kris Holt @krisholt - September 2, 2022

Samsung has disclosed another cybersecurity incident. While an intrusion earlier this year led to hackers getting their hands on Galaxy source code, this time around, attackers obtained some customers' personal information.

The company says that Social Security numbers, as well as credit and debit card numbers, were not accessed. However, the event "may have affected information such as name, contact and demographic information, date of birth and product registration information." It hasn't revealed how many people may have been affected. The company is notifying some customers directly via email.
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Samsung says someone gained unauthorized access to its systems in late July. It determined in early August that the attacker had obtained customer data, but consumer devices weren't affected.

In an FAQ, Samsung said it's not necessary for customers to take immediate action based on what it has learned so far in its investigation. Still, it suggested that people exercise caution if they receive unsolicited emails and to review their accounts for signs of suspicious activity.

"We are committed to protecting the security and privacy of our customers," Samsung said. "We will continue to work diligently to develop and implement immediate and longer-term next steps to further enhance the security across our systems."
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guest · Sep 6, 2022

Parsing Samsung’s data breach notice
What Samsung is saying — and isn't saying — about its July data breach
By Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker - September 6, 2022

Hours before a long holiday weekend in the United States, electronics giant Samsung announced its U.S. systems were breached a month earlier by malicious hackers, who broke in and made off with gobs of personal information about an unspecified number of its customers.

The data breach is likely significant. Samsung is one of the largest technology companies with hundreds of millions of device owners — and users — around the world. But Samsung’s poorly explained data breach notice, coupled with its unexplained delay in disclosing the data breach, left customers reading the tea-leaves and without a clear idea of what they can do to protect themselves, if at all.
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TechCrunch has marked up and annotated Samsung’s data breach notice with our analysis of what it means — and what Samsung leaves out.

Spokespeople for Samsung, via crisis communications firm Edelman, declined to answer the questions we sent prior to publication, citing the “ongoing nature of our coordination with law enforcement.”
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guest · Sep 10, 2022

Samsung is facing a class action suit over a recent data breach
By Jay Bonggolto @JayBonggolto - September 10, 2022

What you need to know

Samsung is being sued for failing to notify affected customers of a July data breach.

The incident was discovered in August, but it took Samsung a month to inform customers about the incident.

Some 3,000 consumers were impacted by the breach.

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According to Bloomberg, a complaint has been filed against Samsung over a recent data breach that occurred in July. An unauthorized third party managed to access and steal customer information from the company's U.S. systems, including names, birthdays, contact information, and product registration information.

Samsung said it had discovered the hack on August 4, although it did not inform affected consumers until a month later.
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The complaint, which was filed at the U.S. District Court for Nevada, alleges that Samsung neglected its duty as a collector of personal information by not reporting the incident to affected customers in a timely manner. Over 3,000 customers were affected by the breach, including the plaintiff, Shelby Harmer.

While the company is working to address the incident, it may have done so a bit too late, and it could end up facing a class action suit for failing to take action in due time.
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guest · Jan 20, 2023

Samsung investigating claims of hack on South Korea systems, internal employee platform
By Jonathan Greig @jgreigj - January 20, 2023

Samsung is investigating a potential cyberattack and data breach on an internal employee platform and several systems in South Korea.
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On Tuesday, a group of hackers going by the name “Genesis Day” claimed it attacked Samsung’s offices in South Korea because of the country’s recent opening of a mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The group said it hacked the internal File Transfer Protocol service of the Samsung Group in South Korea as well as the internal employee system and the Samsung Group intranet.
They threatened to leak business data from Samsung’s operations in France and more.

“We are aware of the recent online posting and are in the process of verifying the claim,” a Samsung spokesperson told The Record.
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The breach involved names, contact and demographic information, dates of birth, and product registration information.
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