TechCrunch reports:
Samsung has admitted that hackers accessed the personal data of U.K.-based customers during a year-long breach of its systems.
In a statement to TechCrunch, Samsung spokesperson Chelsea Simpson, representing the company via a third-party agency, said Samsung was “recently alerted to a security incident” that “resulted in certain contact information of some Samsung U.K. e-store customers being unlawfully obtained.”
Samsung declined to answer further questions about the incident, such as how many customers were affected or how hackers accessed its internal systems.
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