Security News > 2022 > March > Hackers leak 190GB of alleged Samsung data, source code
The Lapsus$ data extortion group leaked today a huge collection of confidential data they claim to be from Samsung Electronics, the South Korean giant consumer electronics company.
In a note posted earlier today, the extortion gang teased about releasing Samsung data with a snapshot of C/C++ directives in Samsung software.
Bootloader source code for all recent Samsung devices.
Full source code for technology used for authorizing and authenticating Samsung accounts, including APIs and services.
Part 3 contains various repositories from Samsung Github: mobile defense engineering, Samsung account backend, Samsung pass backend/frontend, and SES. It is unclear if Lapsus$ contacted Samsung for a ransom, as they claimed in the case of Nvidia.
BleepingComputer has contacted Samsung for a statement about the Lapsus$ data leak and will updated the article when the company replies.