Samsung Confidential data has been leaked due to a cyber attack on Friday, a hacking group uploaded a trove of data they claimed came from the smartphone manufacturer. Lapsus$ says they had the source code for all of the Smartphone maker’s recent devices, in addition to code related to highly sensitive features like biometric authentication and on-device encryption.
This leak from the hacker group includes confidential data from Qualcomm and the entirety of the database contains approximately 198 gigabytes of data and is also being shared in a torrent. If all of the data from Samsung is legitimate, It could cause some very significant and real harm to Samsung.
Lapsus$ is the same hacking group that also claimed responsibility for the recent NVIDIA data breach In which they said that they Obtained nearly one terabyte of confidential data from the GPU maker. Lapsus$ The hacking group said that NVIDIA should make their drivers open-source and also remove the crypto mining limiter from their RTX 30 series GPUs.
It’s unclear what, if any demands, Lapsus$ has made of Samsung. The group has previously said its actions haven’t been politically motivated.
