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• Last week, Lapsus$ said it had stolen 190GB of Samsung’s confidential data
• Samsung asserted that no personal information of customers was compromised
Samsung confirmed that hackers had breached its internal company data, and gained access to some source codes of Galaxy-branded devices such as smartphones.
Samsung confirmed the breach on Monday, adding that no personal information of customers was compromised, in a statement shared with Bloomberg.
"We were recently made aware that there was a security breach relating to certain internal company data. Immediately after discovering the incident, we strengthened our security system," the company said.
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Last week, South American hacking group Lapsus$ posted on its Telegram channel that it had stolen 190GB of confidential data, including source code for trusted applets installed in Samsung’s TrustZone environment. The group also posted snapshots of the alleged data online.
The stolen data includes codes used in Samsung phones for performing sensitive operations, algorithms for all biometric unlock operations and bootloader source code for all recent Samsung Galaxy devices, reported TechCrunch.
The stolen data also allegedly includes confidential data from U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm, which supplies chipsets for Samsung smartphones sold in the United States.
The company spokesperson did not comment on whether the company had received any ransom calls regarding the stolen data.
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