The Group That Hacked NVIDIA Also Stole Galaxy Source Code From Samsung
Samsung has confirmed that it has suffered a massive data breach that has leaked critical company information, including source code related to its Galaxy smartphones. Hackings and cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly common in recent years. Even the most prominent companies that spend millions of dollars every year in cyber-security are not immune to such problems. Several companies have reported massive data breaches of late, and there have also been reports of state-sponsored hackings against activists, opposition politicians, journalists, foreign diplomats, etc.
The news of the Samsung hack comes just days after NVIDIA said it detected a massive data breach that reportedly leaked information about the company's next-gen GPUs, codenamed Ada, Hopper and Blackwell. It also seemingly revealed that a new Nintendo Switch model is under development. A ransomware group called 'Lapsus$' has claimed responsibility for the hack. It is also threatening to release the LHR V2 bypass software that would help users circumvent the hash rate limiter that NVIDIA implemented in its RTX 30-series GPUs.
Related: NVIDIA's Next-Gen GPU Plans Leak After Cyber Attack
On Monday, in a statement to Bloomberg, Samsung admitted suffering a data breach that leaked vast amounts of internal company data. Around 190GB of confidential data has already reportedly been dumped online, including the source code for every Trusted Applet installed in Samsung's TrustZone environment used for encryption, access control, and hardware cryptography, according to a description of the leak published online. Some of the other leaked information reportedly includes algorithms for biometric unlock operations in smartphones, bootloader source codes for Galaxy
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