Samsung admits 1/1 data breach
THE strange and mysterious “1/1” notification sent to some Samsung users recently may not have been as much of an innocent mistake as originally thought.
The Korean electronics company said the mystery message was “sent unintentionally during an internal test and there is no effect on your device”, but it’s since emerged some users were able to see others’ data during the period.
IT news website The Register revealed readers sent the publication a “not-insignificant” number of emails that said they could see other people’s data when they raced to the Samsung website to change their passwords, fearing the cryptic notification
CRYPTIC MESSAGE: Some Samsung users have received a strange notification on their phones. was a sign of cyber attack.
Samsung has since admitted there was a data breach, but claimed it only affected “a small number” of customers.
Given Samsung is the number one seller of smartphones globally, a could still amount.
“A technical error resulted in a small number of users being able to access the details of another user,” a Samsung representative told The Register.
“As soon as we became aware of the incident, we removed the ability to log in to the store on our website until the issue was fixed.”
The report also said some of the people who received the notification had the Find My Mobile app it appeared to originate from disabled on their device. But that doesn’t appear to have stopped the cryptic notification coming through.
“small number” be a sizeable
Jack Gramenz
MICROSOFT has boasted that its Xbox Series X will be eight times more powerful than the original Xbox One but still won’t say how much that power will cost.
The announcement about the next-gen Microsoft console comes amid near-total silence from Sony about its upcoming PlayStation 5. Xbox is taking direct aim at the PS5 with its beefy new console.
“We know you expect the next generation of consoles to set new standards in graphical power and processing speed, converging together in games that look incredible and feel alive,” said Phil Spencer, head of Xbox.
“This worlds will be defined by that are visually astounding and immediately immersive with innovative leaps in CPU, GPU and storage technology to give you frictionless access to new stories and new creators constantly.”
The key news is the Xbox Series X will deliver 12teraflops of processing power.
Teraflops refer to the number of operations a processor can handle at a given time.
The new Xbox will be able to have 12 trillion “operations” every single second. For context, that’s twice as powerful as the Xbox One X and eight times better than the original Xbox One.
Mr Spencer called this a “true generational leap”.
Sadly, we still don’t have an exact release date, but we know the console will be out in time for Christmas.
There’s also no price yet, but this kind of performance won’t come cheap.
The Sun