{"id":2654,"date":"2015-10-08T08:06:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T15:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2015-10-08T08:06:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T15:06:19","slug":"samsungs-looppay-hacked-customer-data-not-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2654","title":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s LoopPay hacked, customer data not at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung\u2019s LoopPay was recently victim of a cyber attack from China, according to a report from\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em> earlier this week. Customer data is not at risk, Samsung said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The hacks began back in March, the news outlet said, and were organized by two groups known as Sunshock and Codoso, who were \u201cafter the company\u2019s technology,\u201d\u00a0<em>The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>said, pointing to LoopPay\u2019s unique ability to process contactless payments with the same magnetic strip readers used to swipe credit and debit cards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamsung Pay was not impacted and at no point was any personal payment information at risk,\u201d Samsung said. \u201cThis was an isolated incident that targeted the LoopPay office network, which is a physically separate network from Samsung Pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An expert with FireEye\u00a0speaking to\u00a0<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> suggested that LoopPay may have been a target during the acquisition process as a possible way into Samsung, and because startups have \u201crelatively weak security.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/samsung-says-personal-payment-information-not-at-risk-1444273037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE WALL STREET JOURNAL<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/08\/technology\/chinese-hackers-breached-looppay-a-contributor-to-samsung-pay.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE NEW YORK TIMES<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung\u2019s LoopPay was recently victim of a cyber attack from China, according to a report from\u00a0The New York Times earlier this week. Customer data is not at risk, Samsung said Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}