The information is still not much, but it is certain that Samsung has seen access to sensitive information achieved. Hackers announced this situation last weekend, proving that they had managed to pull off this attack.
With a lot at stake, Samsung decided to open up the game and reveal the information it already has in its possession. It confirmed the attack, but ensured that no personal information from its customers or employees was stolen.
Those responsible for this attack are well known, including to the Portuguese. The Lapsus$ group was responsible for several attacks in our country, which resulted in the loss of information from some media and other areas.
This time the victim was Samsung, which saw 190 GB of data being removed from its servers. The company has now publicly acknowledged the problem and ensured that all necessary measures are taken to prevent this situation from happening again in the near future.
There has been a security breach related to certain internal company data.
According to our initial analysis, the breach involves some source code related to the management of Galaxy devices, but does not include the personal information of our consumers or employees.
We currently do not anticipate any impact to our business or customers. We have implemented measures to prevent further incidents of this type and will continue to provide uninterrupted service to our customers.
From what the company revealed, the theft will have been focused on its software. Specifically, the source code for the management software for the Galaxy family's mobile devices will have been obtained, which represents a future problem for Samsung.
In the statements it presented, Samsung ended up not confirming or denying the identity of the attackers to its systems. Still, and from what the attackers revealed over the weekend, it is clear that it was an action carried out by the Lapsus$ group.
This same group was responsible for the NVIDIA attack. In this case, the company ended up being blackmailed by the attackers, who wanted to see cryptocurrency mining limits removed from some GPUs. It is not known whether in this case Samsung will have been faced with a similar situation.
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