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Samsung has admitted that hackers get at the personal data of U.K.-based customer during a twelvemonth - long severance of its systems .
In a argument to TechCrunch , Samsung voice Chelsea Simpson , representing the company via a third - company agency , enjoin Samsung was “ recently alerted to a security incident ” that “ resulted in certain inter-group communication info of some Samsung U.K. e - store customers being unlawfully receive . ”
Samsung decline to answer further question about the incident , such as how many customers were affected or how hackers accessed its internal organization .
In a varsity letter sent to affected customers , Samsung acknowledge that attackers exploited a exposure in an nameless third - party byplay applications programme to enter the personal information of customers who made purchase at Samsung U.K. ’s store between July 1 , 2019 and June 30 , 2020 .
In the varsity letter , which was shared on X(formerly Twitter ) , Samsung articulate it did n’t discover the via media until more than three year afterward , on November 13 , 2023 .
Samsung told affected client that hackers may have accessed their name , phone numbers , postal addresses and email address . “ No financial data point , such as bank or acknowledgment card inside information or client password , were impacted , ” Samsung ’s representative told TechCrunch , adding that the company had reported the issue to the U.K. ’s Information Commissioner ’s Office ( ICO ) .
ICO spokesperson Adele Burns confirmed to TechCrunch that the U.K. data shelter regulator is aware of the incident and “ will be make inquiry . ”
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This incident is the third data rupture that Samsung has disclosed in the preceding two years .
In September 2022 , the company sustain in a brief placard thatattackers had accessed some info from some of Samsung ’s U.S. systemsbut decline to say how many customer were dissemble . Prior to this , in March 2022 , Samsungconfirmed that it had suffer a breachafter Lapsus$ hackers claim to have obtain and leaked almost 200 gigabytes of secret data from the party ’s systems , include source code for various technologies and algorithms for biometric unlock operations .
parse Samsung ’s information breach notice
