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Article headline: Samsung Suffers Another Massive Data Breach: Should You Be Worried?

This really needs renamed. Samsung did not 'lose' anything. If I 'rm -rf' data without a backup, that is data loss. This is a breach in which the only loses is 'Samsung loses control of singular ownership of your data putting users at risk'.

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> Samsung did not 'lose' anything.

Well there is DLP: "Data Loss Prevention is the practice of detecting and preventing data breaches, exfiltration, or unwanted destruction of sensitive data."

You can bet that Samsung doesn't have singular ownership of any customer data in their possession. If Samsung isn't selling it to someone else already the state will be buying or taking it.

Which state? They're South Korean.

Certainly any operations within the US will be subject to data collection by one three letter agency or another. I'm not sure how much South Korea likes to spy on their own companies, but I think it's a safe bet they're collecting data too.

So basically speculation.

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