Samsung Electronics is sending notification emails to UK customers whos data may have been compromised in a recent breach the company suffered.
The company says that a cyberattack impacted the data of customers who made purchases from the Samsung UK online store between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020.
Samsung discovered the breach on November 13th and identified the source of the access was via a vulnerability in a 3rd party application the company used.
The incident has been reported to the UKs data protection authority – the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) as the breach has affected Personally Identifiable Information (PII) including names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses.
