Samsung Security Breach

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Not sure why it has taken Samsung this long to disclose to customers that it was hacked back in August.

Electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a data breach affecting customers’ personal information.

In a brief notice, Samsung said it discovered the security incident in late-July and that an “unauthorized third party acquired information from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems.” The company said it determined customer data was compromised on August 4.

Samsung said Social Security numbers and credit card numbers were not affected, but some customer information — name, contact and demographic information, date of birth, and product registration information — was taken.

“The information affected for each relevant customer may vary. We are notifying customers to make them aware of this matter,” said the statement.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/02/samsung-data-breach/

Please use single-use passwords that are hard to crack. Please also do not use the same password for multiple logins - especially for financial websites!!!

'38Packard

  • keeps his accounts safe with single-use passwords that are a mile long with lots of hieroglyphics!!
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Your data is valuable to companies, so they are always asking for more. Don’t give it unless you have to.

Jeff
(Found out today that three “throw away” passwords have recently been compromised (One each: Waze, Melia Hotels, a DNS server app)

Jeff

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Not sure why it has taken Samsung this long to disclose to customers that it was hacked back in August.
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The company said it determined customer data was compromised on August 4.

One month. That’s actually really flippin’ fast for public acknowledgment of a hack, especially one that doesn’t involve SSN or HIPPA considerations.

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