Some things like credit card numbers and social security numbers were not affected, the latter being especially important to people in the US since it’s effectively their national ID. But Samsung says other details like name, contact and demographic details, date of birth and product registration data were compromised. The company did not disclose the exact number of affected individuals. This would be the second time Samsung found itself a victim of security breaches within this year. Earlier in March, the company had the source code of its Galaxy devices accessed by black hat hacking group Lapsus$. It was also just one in a pretty substantial list of targets, including the likes of Microsoft, Nvidia, Okta and Ubisoft. That episode saw the hacker group take off with nearly 1TB of confidential data. As ZDNET reports though, customer data was not affected in that incident, at least on Samsung’s part. (Source: Samsung via ZDNET)
