Samsung confirms hackers stole Galaxy source code

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Samsung has confirmed today that hackers have gotten their hands on internal company data and source code for Galaxy devices. Still, it wanted to assure employees and customers that no personal data has been taken. The company won't also name who the hackers were or whether the data stolen was related to encryption and biometrics.

Hacking group Lapsus$ claimed responsibility for the breach, sharing screenshots supposedly showing roughly 200GB of stolen data, including source code used by the company for encryption and biometric unlocking functions on Galaxy hardware. Samsung said in a statement about the breach, "According to our initial analysis, the breach involves some source code relating to the operation of Galaxy devices, but does not include the personal information of our consumers or employees. Currently, we do not anticipate any impact to our business or customers. We have implemented measures to prevent further such incidents and will continue to serve our customers without disruption." 

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YouTube reportedly wants to pay podcasters to film their shows

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YouTube wants to dive deeper into the podcasting space, at least according to rumours. The company is reportedly offering podcasters money to create video versions of their shows. Bloomberg reports that it offers podcasters everything from US$50,000 for individual shows to US$300,000 for podcast networks, which they can potentially use to film episodes or other video-based content.

As The Verge pointed out, YouTube has been working on improving audio features on the platform. In October, it let Canadian users listen to audio without having the app open, a feature previously only available to YouTube Premium subscribers. 

Heardle is the Wordle for pop songs

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If you pride yourself on your knowledge of pop music and love the Wordle format, you might want to try out Heardle. The game will give you six tries to guess a pop song from the "list of the most streamed songs in the past decade." You are given extended song snippets to figure out what it is, which you'll need to hit skip to hear more. And it gets that similar sharing feature of Wordle, so you can brag about your pop music knowledge on social media. Heardle pulls its songs from Soundcloud, so they shouldn't, as The Verge put it, "get DMCA'd off the internet" for using pop song clips. 

NVIDIA hackers reportedly have obtained 190GB of sensitive data from Samsung

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One-hundred ninety gigabytes of Samsung's confidential data might have been reportedly leaked due to a suspected cyberattack. On Friday, South American hacking group Lapsus$, the same group who claimed responsibility for a recent NVIDIA data breach, uploaded a trove of data it claims came from Samsung. It reportedly contains bootloader source code for all of the company's recent devices, including code related to highly-sensitive features like on-device encryption and biometric authentication. It also supposedly includes confidential data from Qualcomm.

Samsung says it is assessing the situation. The hacker group hasn't made any demands from the company, unlike the NVIDIA breach. Lapsus$ demanded that NVIDIA open source its drivers and remove the cryptocurrency mining limiter from its RTX 30-series GPUs.

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