By: Leonardo Neri

After illegally accessing confidential data from Samsung's Galaxy line, cybercriminals removed around 200 GB of data from the company, which includes encryption (digital security); binary encryption (computerized numbering system with the numbers 0 and 1) and access control.

To date, there is still no idea of the specific purpose of the attack, but it is believed that the action is so that hackers can unlock the cell phones that are sold by the company.

The multinational company publicly confirmed the attack and claimed that the leak did not affect the personal information of its customers and employees.

The scale of the attack puts the privacy of a large part of the population at risk, given that the cell phone brand that was affected holds a large part of the cell phone market segment, which is an instrument used by practically the entire society today.

Events such as the one reported increasingly place the issue of data protection and information security as priorities, not only for regulatory agents, but also for various business sectors that support the maintenance of due protection of the privacy of each citizen.

With the collaboration of Pedro Sobolewski