Should You Be Worried About Hackers Selling Alleged Samsung Data?

Hackers or other threat actors making claims about data breaches is not new. We see these incidents every once in a while. They’re not completely harmless, but most of the time they cause little impact, depending on how you look at it. Most recently, a hacker using the alias 888 is offering internal records and data that are allegedly from Samsung.

Hacker is claiming to offer Samsung Medison data, and not Samsung Electronics’

This brings up a bigger question: should you be worried now? Samsung is a very large company with many subsidiaries. One of these is Samsung Mobile, which operates under Samsung Electronics. However, this particular data breach does not affect any data that may have been taken from our phones or wearables. Instead, the data in question comes from Samsung Medison. 

Samsung Medison is one of the company’s subsidiaries operating in South Korea that focuses on building medical imaging and ultrasound systems. Totally, unrelated to what you would buy as a consumer. So you’re safe here, and not at all in the bad light, at least with this data breach. But certainly, it’s equally bad. The folks at Hackread took a look at the screenshot leaked by the hacker.

According to them, it contains “what appears to be backend database content and cloud storage data from a Samsung Medison healthcare environment, including SQL tables, user/employee records, internal logs and exported cloud directories.” More importantly, Samsung has neither confirmed nor denied these allegations. We will update the story once the company issues a statement.