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    https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/16/samsung-hackers-customer-data-breach/

    Samsung has admitted that hackers accessed the personal data of U.K.-based customers during a year-long breach of its systems…

    In a letter sent to affected customers, Samsung admitted that attackers exploited a vulnerability in an unnamed third-party business application to access the personal information of customers who made purchases at Samsung U.K.’s store between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020…

    In the letter, which was shared on X (formerly Twitter), Samsung said it didn’t discover the compromise until more than three years later, on November 13, 2023…

    Samsung told affected customers that hackers may have accessed their names, phone numbers, postal addresses and email addresses. “No financial data, such as bank or credit card details or customer passwords, were impacted,”..

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      Samsung told affected customers that hackers may have accessed their names, phone numbers, postal addresses and email addresses. “No financial data, such as bank or credit card details or customer passwords, were impacted,”..

      Oh, well, then that’s OK then! That makes it all better!

      [SFX: “Aaaaaaarrrghhhh!”]

      All they need to do now is get all the other factorums from other incomplete data raids, and put it all together!  And they waited a year??

      From The Register: “Were the miscreants really so clever they stayed under the radar for a whole year or was Samsung’s logging, security and monitoring so poor that it was easy to stay under the radar?”

      https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2023/11/17/uk_samsung_electronics_discloses_yearlong/

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      stayed under the radar for a whole year

      Why leave after a year ?

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