Timlo.net–Some time ago, NVIDIA experienced a data breach and a lot of information from that company was uploaded online. The leaked data reveals that NVIDIA may be working with Nintendo to develop a chipset new used for Switch in the future. Now, Samsung seems to be the second technology company to experience a recent data breach.
Group who claimed responsibility, Lapsus$ also uploaded 190GB of data. They claim that the data was obtained from Samsung. They said that the data contained Samsung’s secret source code. The code is used for Trusted Applets in Samsung’s TrustZone environment, writes UbergizmoSunday (6/3).
TrustZone is a place where many sensitive tasks are performed by Samsung employees. For example hardware cryptography and access control, as well as biometric unlocking algorithms. In addition, there are data such as sources bootloaderactivation source code server and others. This means that in theory, those who have access to this code could have the opportunity to reverse engineer it.
Samsung said to the Korea Herald if they recently checked the truth of the situation. But it is not clear what the company’s next steps will be. In addition, the impact of the data leak on Samsung devices is also unknown.
In previous reports, Samsung was accused of slowing down the performance of thousands of applications non gaming on their device. This was discovered after some users changed the name of the non . application game be app name game. After that they found a very significant difference in performance.
Editor: Ranu Ario
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