Recent Data Breach Gets Samsung Hit With A Class Action Lawsuit
Rita L Khoury / Android Authority
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A recent class action lawsuit alleges that Samsung failed to protect personal data after the US company's systems suffered a data breach in July.
According to Bloomberg, the lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for Nevada on September 6. The lawsuit alleges that plaintiff Shelby Harmer and other affected customers were not notified immediately after the cyberattack on Samsung.
The incident cited in the filed lawsuit occurred in late July 2022 when an unauthorized party managed to steal personal information from Samsung's US systems, including name, contact and demographic information, date of birth, and registration information. of the product. The tech giant claims that it became aware of the breach after conducting an investigation around August 4. However, the problem that the complaint highlights is that Samsung did not contact its affected customers until several months later.
Despite saying it had taken steps to protect its affected systems, worked with "leading third-party cybersecurity companies" and worked closely with law enforcement, it took nearly a month for Samsung to notify its customers. That's more than enough time to detect the breach, according to the class action lawsuit, and the company's decision to wait amounts to ignoring its responsibilities as a data collector.
Most companies can take weeks or months to notice a data breach. However, if Samsung learned of the breach around August 4, it's hard to see why the company would wait until September to notify its customers.
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