Samsung Electronics is notifying a few of its prospects of an information breach that uncovered their private data to an unauthorized particular person.
The corporate says that the cyberattack impacted solely prospects who made purchases from the Samsung UK on-line retailer between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020.
Hacker exploits bug in third-party app
Samsung found the information breach two days in the past, on November 13, and decided that it was the results of a hacker exploiting a vulnerability in a third-party utility the corporate used.
No particulars have been offered in regards to the safety difficulty leveraged within the assault or the susceptible utility that enabled the attacker to entry Samsung buyer’s private data.
The notification to prospects says that uncovered knowledge might embrace names, telephone numbers, postal and e-mail addresses. The corporate underlines that credentials or monetary data stays unaffected by the incident.
A Samsung spokesperson instructed BleepingComputer that the corporate was lately alerted of a cybersecurity incident that’s restricted to the UK area and doesn’t have an effect on knowledge belonging to prospects within the U.S., staff, or retailers.
“We have been lately alerted to a cybersecurity incident, which resulted in sure contact data of some Samsung UK e-store prospects being unlawfully obtained. No monetary knowledge, equivalent to financial institution or bank card particulars, or buyer passwords, have been impacted. The incident is restricted to the UK and doesn’t have an effect on U.S. prospects, staff or retailer knowledge” – Samsung
The corporate has taken all vital steps to deal with the safety difficulty, the consultant instructed BleepingComputer, including that the incident has additionally been reported to the UK’s Data Commissioner’s Workplace.
That is the third knowledge breach Samsung has suffered in two years. The earlier one occurred in late July, 2023 – found on August 4, when hackers accessed and stole Samsung prospects’ names, contacts and demographic data, dates of beginning, and product registration knowledge.
In March 2023, the knowledge extortion group Lapsus$ breached Samsung’s community and stole confidential data, together with supply code for Galaxy smartphones.
Samsung confirmed that “sure inside knowledge” had fallen into the arms of an unauthorized get together after Lapsus$ leaked about 190GB of archived information together with an outline of the contents.