Samsung has revealed a data breach that exposed personal information of customers in the United Kingdom over a one-year period.
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According to the South Korean company, the breach was caused by a vulnerability in an unidentified third-party application, which hackers exploited to access data of customers who made purchases on Samsung‘s online store in the United Kingdom between July 2019 and June 2020.
According to TechCrunch, the company did not disclose the exact number of affected customers, but the breach compromised names, phone numbers, postal addresses, and emails. Fortunately, no financial data or passwords were exposed.
Samsung sent a letter to customers affected by the hackers’ invasion, which was shared by users on X, formerly known as Twitter. In the document, Samsung states that it was recently alerted to the incident, which was only discovered more than three years after the breach, on November 13, 2023.
Data breach at @Samsung: https://t.co/j3JXFvYrfp
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 15, 2023
