Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022
U.S. electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a data breach affecting customers' personal information.
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Context & Ripple Effects
Samsung had already disclosed a March incident involving internal company material and Galaxy-related source code while saying customer data was unaffected. The new US-system incident brings customer records into the breach history, shifting attention from engineering assets to information tied to product owners. Samsung also previously disclosed a website incident that showed some users other customers’ data, giving the latest disclosure a longer customer-data-security backdrop.
First-order effects
Affected Samsung customers have had names, contact details and product-registration information exposed from the company’s US systems.
The incident expands security scrutiny from Samsung’s internal development environment to the customer and registration systems that connect its products to their owners.
If Samsung continues to disclose incidents across source-code repositories and customer-facing systems, electronics makers will face a broader security mandate spanning product development, web services and lifecycle registration data.
The trend: Consumer-electronics security is becoming an end-to-end systems issue as breaches reach both proprietary product assets and customer-service data.
New: Samsung says customer data was stolen by a hacker in a July data breach. It was announced today, Friday, hours before the start of a long holiday weekend in the U.S. https://techcrunch.com/...
Apparently Samsung US got hacked on August 4th 2022, they sent an e-mail about it this morning. I don't remember giving Samsung my SSN or Credit Card information which they say is NOT breached, but then they want you to check your credit score anyway. https://www.samsung.com/... …
On Friday, ahead of the long Labor Day weekend, Samsung issues a press release that starts, like, so: “At Samsung, security is a top priority.” https://www.samsung.com/...
Samsung said in its statement that Social Security numbers and credit/debit card numbers were not affected by the breach. It's not clear why Samsung has Social Security numbers to begin with. More on this breach as it becomes available: https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.…
When reached by email, Samsung (via crisis PR firm Edelman) has declined to tell us how many people are affected by this data breach, what specific data was taken — or what “demographic data” includes — and why it took more than a month to alert customers. https://techcrunch.com/…
New: Samsung has confirmed it “recently” discovered a cybersecurity incident in late July in which an unauthorised third party accessed customers' personal information from some of the company's US systems. https://www.samsung.com/...
Looks like #Samsung had a data breach. I'm one of the folks who received an email that basically says the same thing as this page... https://www.samsung.com/...