Samsung Investigates Massive Data Leak -- What You Need To Know

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Samsung security secrets were found exposed to the public by a security researcher. Just how big a security faux pas was this? Here's what is known so far…

Share to linkedinA security researcher has revealed that a whole load of sensitive information has been inadvertently made accessible to the public on GitLab. Nothing so unusual about that you might think. However, the information concerned included source code, credentials and secret keys for various projects.

Samsung has revoked the Amazon Web Services credentials following Hussein's disclosure to them on April 10, although Whittaker says that vulnerability report has still not been closed by Samsung which suggests there is possibly still remediation work to be done. In a statement to TechCrunch, a Samsung spokesperson said that"we have yet to find evidence that any external access occurred" but Samsung is"currently investigating this further.

Ilia Kolochenko, founder of web security vendor ImmuniWeb, says that many large enterprises unwittingly leak source code through not only public code repositories but also social networks, Pastebin and other communities on the web."Often, the source code contains hardcoded credentials and API keys," Kolochenko says,"let alone intellectual property owned by the organizations." He blames the outsourcing of software development to third parties for exacerbating the problem.

On this occasion, as far as we know, Samsung got lucky and plugged the leaks before malicious actors found out. Some might argue more by luck than judgement…

 

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