One of the world’s biggest manufacturer of electronics, Samsung, disclosed on Friday that it had recently experienced a data breach, the second such incident to be acknowledged by the business this year.
“Today, we are taking a moment to inform our customers that we recently discovered a cybersecurity incident that affected some of their information, unauthorised third party acquired information from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems.” Samsung informed in a statement.
Social Security and credit card numbers, according to Samsung, were unaffected, but some customer data, including name, contact and demographic details, date of birth, and product registration data, were affected.
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Samsung has acknowledged a data breach twice so far this year. The business acknowledged in March that the Lapsus$ hacker group, which also compromised Nvidia, Microsoft, and T-Mobile, had gained and exposed about 200 gigabytes of private information, including the source code for numerous technologies and biometric unlock algorithms.
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