Samsung Loses a Ton of User Data – Offers Nothing to Victims

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Article headline: Samsung Suffers Another Massive Data Breach: Should You Be Worried?<p>This really needs renamed. Samsung did not &#x27;lose&#x27; anything. If I &#x27;rm -rf&#x27; data without a backup, that is data loss. This is a breach in which the only loses is &#x27;Samsung loses control of singular ownership of your data putting users at risk&#x27;.

Bummer. I was looking forward to stacking on some more “free” credit monitoring.

&quot;We want to assure our customers that the issue did not impact Social Security numbers or credit and debit card numbers, but in some cases, may have affected information such as name, contact and demographic information, date of birth&quot;<p>How exactly is this meant to be &quot;assuring&quot;? Who cares in the slightest about credit or debit card numbers? The other stuff matters FAR FAR more.

Another reason why not use stock ROM with tons of bloatware from manufacturer.<p>Samsung smartphones are good in terms of HW and custom ROM compatibilities. Terrible in OS and basically anything SW related.

And why should they? It&#x27;s not like it has any consequences<p><i>edit</i> just to make it clear because the downvotes are flooding in: it does not have any consequences for Samsung. Users are fucked of course.

I am buying a new phone, and might end up buying a Samsung, though I absolutely hate all the garbage they default install.<p>How do I protect myself from such attacks on Samsung in the future?

Samsung offers accidental backups to their users!†<p>†Contents of backups not assured. Data retrieval not guaranteed. No removal procedure. Access control is on a come and get it basis.

They told me I could get a free credit report every year!

Just got a new Samsung sound bar. Can anyone explain why when I connect via Bluetooth (or maybe it was their smart things app) it wants access to my phone contacts and messages!?

Companies can not be trusted with your data. Don&#x27;t give it to them.