Samsung Electronics Victim of a Cyberrattaker, data of its customers would not be concerned

Friday, a group of cybercriminals had posted data belonging, according to him, to the Korean electronics giant.

Le Monde

Samsung Electronics has been the victim of a cyber attack and a data leak, the Korean manufacturer reported on Monday, March 7th.

“According to our first analyzes, the leak relates part of the source code relating to our [smartphones] Galaxy, but does not include the personal information of our customers or our employees,” explained A spokesman for the electronics giant at Bloomberg . In its statement, the company claims to have taken steps to prevent this kind of incident in the future. It is not known whether the stolen data has been the subject of a ransom request.

Friday, March 4th, a South American group, Lapsus $, had published on its Telegram channel links to 190 gigabytes of files, containing from the hackers Miscellaneous Codes Apartment in Samsung Electronics , whose algorithms operating the biometric unlocking of its phones.

Relatively unknown a few months ago, the $ LapSus group claimed a cyber attack on the Brazilian Ministry of Health in December. Since then, he has also targeted the Portuguese Press Group Impresa, as well as South American communication companies claim and embrader. At the end of February, the NVIDIA graphics card manufacturer had also been the subject of a solid data flight claimed by Lapsus $ .

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