Nvidia hackers hit Samsung and leak huge data dump

Date:
Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:06:12 +0000

Description:
Rumored Samsung 190GB database has already been downloaded hundreds of times.

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The increasingly-notorious cybercrime group Lapsus$ has published a huge database, allegedly containing sensitive information from Samsung .

The leak, containing 190GB of data broken into three separate databases, was released via torrent.

Lapsus$ says the databases contain the source code for every Trusted Applet (TA) installed in Samsungs TrustZone environment used for sensitive operations; algorithms for all biometric unlock operations; bootloader source code for all recent Samsung devices; confidential source code from Qualcomm; source code for Samsungs activation servers; full source code for technology used for authorizing and authenticating Samsung accounts, including APIs and services. TechRadar needs you!

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The authenticity of the information has not been confirmed and Samsung has been silent on the matter.

Still, should these files turn out to be authentic, it would mean that the company has suffered a breach of epic proportions, with potentially huge repercussions.

The torrent containing these files has already been downloaded by at least
400 peers, BleepingComputer reports, while Lapsus$ says it will be deploying more servers to increase the download speed.

Samsung has also been asked to confirm if the threat actor demanded any
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Among the data were login credentials, and other identity-related
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