Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-03-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: Samsung Electronics
Affected country: Korea (the Republic of)
Industry: Manufacturing
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Data Attack,Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Lapsus$
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Lapsus$ data extortion group leaks 190GB of confidential data they claim to be from Samsung Electronics. Few days later the company confirms to have suffered the breach.