October 7, 2015 09:24 pm -04
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Samsung's mobile payments acquisition LoopPay breached by hackers
A report on Wednesday revealed that LoopPay, the U.S.-created mobile payment system acquired by Samsung in February, was the target of a hacker attack in March
But the most interesting wrinkle in the story is the fact that the hackers who executed the attack on the South Korea-based company appear to be from China, thus framing the incident as a case of international, possibly corporate, espionage, rather than just another hack
Details of the hacking attack surfaced in a New York Times report, which claims that the Chinese hacker group the Codoso Group had breached the LoopPay computer network. The breach was discovered in August, giving the hackers a full five months access to the network Read more...
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