Data Breach Alert: Samsung Users in [Country] at Risk!
Samsung has been in the news for a worrying development involving its customers in the UK. The company has confirmed a data breach at its UK division that reportedly exposed the personal details of people who bought from Samsung in the region. In fact, Samsung claims that the affected customers purchased from the UK online store between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020.
The worrying part about the breach is that Samsung only became aware of the incident earlier this week. The company mentions that the breach was possible due to a bug in a third-party application used on the devices.
Samsung is not sharing the name of the app that caused this data breach, and we don’t know what access the attackers gained by exposing the personal information of Samsung customers.
The good news about the breach, if you can even call it that, is that no financial information was exposed to the attackers. However, they also received other information, such as phone numbers, customer names, email addresses and addresses.
It goes without saying that people whose information has been exposed should be extra careful when checking their emails, as these attackers may try methods such as phishing to get personal and banking information, steal money, and even push dangerous malware through attachments.
Samsung assures that the breach only affected selected customers in the UK, and none of its global markets have been exposed to the incident. The company also claims to have followed all security protocols required by the data breach and to have informed the authorities involved about the actions.
