Samsung and Mercado Libre were hacked by Lapsus$

Both companies recognized by a large number of the population have had problems regarding their security due to a group of hackers

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Mar 16, 20225 min de lectura

The last week has had several incidents in which two companies are involved, these do not have many things in common, but we both know them very well.

Samsung and Mercado Libre had a security breach by external entities to the company, that is, they were hacked and have stolen valuable information that keeps their project hanging by a thread.

It turns out that both high-impact companies have been harassed by the Lapsus$ group. Do you know them? It seems that every day they want to be more famous. We tell you everything below.

Samsung, the first victim of Lapsus$ last week

One of the most famous companies today among technological devices is undoubtedly Samsung electronic, the South Korean company that has climbed so high for its Samsung Galaxy for more than a decade ago.

It is impossible not to know these companies and what they do for the ease of daily life with any of their devices, and clearly, if you have not owned a Galaxy, at least once you have wanted one.

It is this line of mobile phones which falls under the case of Lapsus$. The company has suffered a theft of its data that is related to the functionality of these specific mobile devices.

The statement released by Samsung

The company was a bit slow in revealing that the news circulating on the internet through Telegram were actually true. They admitted through a statement, by the Bloomberg computer entity, that the company had had a security breach.

It was also aimed at the source code of Galaxy devices, referring to this issue as "theft of certain data from the company that they do not anticipate any damage to worry about".

Their words were clearly sent with the intention to calm the concern of his consumers regarding their personal data and the possibility that it could be revealed and disposed of by dangerous entities.

Samsung Electronic repeatedly clarified that although the hack involves Galaxy devices, it does not in any way involve the personal information of its customers.

Also, they couldn't finish their announcement without seeing an improvement in their security, so they did exactly that.

Mercado libre was the next victim of Lapsus$

Mercado libre is extremely popular in Latin American territory and has climbed among the favorite platforms to buy everything from shoes to household items. It is a business with over 140 million users.

Last week's hack was already publicly planned by Lapsus$, so most of the permanently active netizens did not see this information theft as a surprise.

What was understood before the Mercado Libre page offered statements was that the group of hackers had managed to take a large part of the source code of the platform for the purchase and sale of products and articles.

Although they could not attack all users, the number of affected Mercado Libre users was made public, a total of 300,000 accounts in the Mercado Libre app.

Statement published by Mercado Libre

Those in charge of the social accounts of the multinational company claimed to have been robbed by cybercriminals last week, but although important data was taken, the effects on the personal accounts of their consumers are not at the mercy of hackers.

The Mercado Libre group claims to have had long hours of exhaustive searching for any serious incident left by Lapsus$, and in that time they did not find any evidence that they have the following private information:

• They do not have passwords to personal user accounts.

• They do not have financial information or the data of any payment card associated with the Mercado Libre platform.

• Nor any type of monetary balance registered in the application.

  

What is Lapsus$?

Lapsus$ is a group of hackers who have taken several private information from many fairly well-known companies or even the most famous companies.

It does not appear to be doing it for a monetary profit. Several of his followers believe that they only do it to ruin the security system of companies for fun.

They have little time in action since the first records of their activities are in mid-2020, it seems that they felt bored during the quarantine and this project was simply started as some kind of " hobby ".

Its latest and most famous victims are Nvidia, Mercado Libre, and Samsung. The latter states that Lapsus$ has already given many proofs of being highly dangerous, classifying it as a threat to technological projects.

This group of cybercriminals is completely anonymous, although some have suspicions that it operates in Brazil. All of their criminal activities are posted on their Telegram channel, where they have 30,572 subscribers at the moment.

Here is the link if you want to take a look at this Telegram channel: Lapsus$. Who do you think will be the next victim?