Samsung Hit in Cyberattack

March 7, 2022

INCIDENT

South Korea-based Samsung suffered a cyberattack over the weekend, but it doesn’t see there being any impact on its business or customers, company officials said Monday.
South American hacking group Lapsus$ said it had stolen 190GB of confidential data, including source code, from the tech giant’s servers. The group also posted snapshots of data online.
Samsung confirmed in a statement there was a security breach, but it said there was no compromise of customer personal information.
“We were recently made aware that there was a security breach relating to certain internal company data. Immediately after discovering the incident, we strengthened our security system,” the company said.

Incident Date

March 5, 2022

Location

South Korea

Estimated Cost

unknown at this time.

Victims

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source