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Samsung on Friday said it suffered a data breach that may have exposed some customers' personal information in the US.

The South Korean giant said that it has taken actions to secure the affected systems, and have engaged a leading cybersecurity firm and are coordinating with law enforcement agencies.

Samsung said the data breach 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, and product registration information".

"We recently discovered a cybersecurity incident that affected some customer information. In late July 2022, an unauthorised third party acquired information from some of Samsung's US systems," the company said in a statement.

"On or around August 4, 2022, we determined through our ongoing investigation that personal information of certain customers was affected," it added.

It is not immediately clear how many customers are affected.

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This is the second time Samsung has confirmed a data breach this year.