Although Samsung carefully cabins Stroz’s investigative objectives, it is evident from my in camera review of the Stroz Materials that Stroz conducted a forensic analysis of the data breach to determine: 1) what data was accessed or exfiltrated; 2) what malware or other mechanisms were placed in the system; 3) the scope of the security breach; 4) indicators of compromise; and 5) the , Defendant did not have any services agreement or ongoing relationship with Stroz during the subject data breach.
Retention of Stroz In late July 2022, an unauthorized third -party accessed Samsung’s electronic system and exfiltrated and misappropriated a substantial quantity of certain personally identifiable information (“PII”).
Workplace equityAllegation
Samsung is accused of subjecting migrant workers to unfair dismissal
Samsung Heavy Industries' shipbuilding operations are accused of unfairly dismissing three migrant workers on E-7 visas.
Samsung has been ordered to pay Galaxy S22 owners for deceptive advertising
Corporate conductSettlement
Samsung Heavy Industries agreed to pay $75 million in penalties to resolve a foreign bribery case involving bribes paid to officials in Brazil
Samsung Heavy Industries Company Limited (Samsung Heavy Industries), a South Korea-based engineering company that provides shipbuilding, offshore platform construction, and other construction and engineering services, has agreed to pay total penalties of more than $75 million to resolve the government’s investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) arising out of a scheme to pay millions of dollars in bribes to officials in Brazil.
Samsung Heavy Industries entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department in connection with a criminal information filed today in the Eastern District of Virginia charging the company with conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA.
“Samsung Heavy Industries caused millions of dollars in corrupt bribe payments to be paid to foreign officials to win business, upsetting what should have been a level playing field for other companies that followed the rules,” said U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia.
“Samsung Heavy Industries paid millions of dollars to a Brazilian intermediary, knowing that some of that money would be used to bribe high-level executives at Petrobras and obtain a lucrative shipbuilding contract,” said Assistant Attorney General Brian A.
Samsung Heavy Industries Company Limited (Samsung Heavy Industries), a South Korea-based engineering company that provides shipbuilding, offshore platform construction, and other construction and engineering services, has agreed to pay total penalties of more than $75 million to resolve the government’s investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) arising out of a scheme to pay millions of dollars in bribes to officials in Brazil.
According to admissions by Samsung Heavy Industries, beginning in 2007 and continuing until 2013, the company conspired with others to violate the FCPA by corruptly providing approximately $20 million in commission payments to a Brazilian intermediary, knowing that portions of the money would be paid as bribes to officials at Petrobras, the Brazilian state-owned oil and state-controlled energy company, in order to secure improper business advantages and to cause Petrobras to enter into a contract to charter a drill ship that Samsung Heavy Industries was selling to a Houston-based offshore oil drilling company, which facilitated Samsung Heavy Industries executing the sale of the drill ship.
ALEXANDRIA – Samsung Heavy Industries Company Limited (Samsung Heavy Industries), a South Korea-based engineering company that provides shipbuilding, offshore platform construction, and other construction and engineering services, has agreed to pay total penalties of more than $75 million to resolve the government’s investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) arising out of a scheme to pay millions of dollars in bribes to officials in Brazil.
Samsung Heavy Industries entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department in connection with a criminal information filed today in the Eastern District of Virginia charging the company with conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA.
“Samsung Heavy Industries paid millions of dollars to a Brazilian intermediary, knowing that some of that money would be used to bribe high-level executives at Petrobras and obtain a lucrative shipbuilding contract,” said Assistant Attorney General Brian A.
“Samsung Heavy Industries caused millions of dollars in corrupt bribe payments to be paid to foreign officials to win business, upsetting what should have been a level playing field for other companies that followed the rules,” said U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia.
According to admissions by Samsung Heavy Industries, beginning in 2007 and continuing until 2013, the company conspired with others to violate the FCPA by corruptly providing approximately $20 million in commission payments to a Brazilian intermediary, knowing that portions of the money would be paid as bribes to officials at Petrobras, the Brazilian state-owned oil and state-controlled energy company, in order to secure improper business advantages and to cause Petrobras to enter into a contract to charter a drill ship that Samsung Heavy Industries was selling to a Houston-based offshore oil drilling company, which facilitated Samsung Heavy Industries executing the sale of the drill ship.
Eastern District of Virginia | Samsung Heavy Industries Company LTD Agrees to $75 Million Resolution in Foreign Bribery Case | United States Department of Justice
Corporate conductSettlement
Samsung Electronics America agreed to pay $2.3 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims for products sold on GSA Multiple Award Schedule contracts
Office of Public Affairs | Samsung Electronics America Agrees to Pay $2.3 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations | United States Department of Justice.
Samsung Electronics America Agrees to Pay $2.3 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Office of Public Affairs | Samsung Electronics America Agrees to Pay $2.3 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations | United States Department of Justice
Climate & energyConfirmed
TCEQ investigating Samsung for wastewater discharge
TCEQ, the state's environmental regulator, is actively investigating Samsung due to a wastewater discharge that turned a neighboring creek orange.
Left unsaid during the awards ceremony was the fact that TCEQ, the state’s environmental regulator, was actively investigating Samsung because of a wastewater discharge last year that turned a neighboring creek the shade of orange Gatorade.
Workplace equityConfirmed
Samsung discriminates against fixed-term employee
Samsung discriminated against a fixed-term employee regarding holiday benefits, as confirmed by a Labor Relations Commission judgment.
INCHEON, South Korea, April 02, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Samsung Biologics Labor Union criticized Samsung Biologics after the Incheon Regional Labor Relations Commission (Case No. Incheon 2025 Discrimination 10) ruled the company's exclusion of contract workers from holiday gift benefits constituted discriminatory treatment.
A written judgment from the Labor Relations Commission confirming that Samsung Biologics discriminated against a fixed-term employee regarding holiday benefits.
Corporate conductRecall
Samsung recalls washing machines due to fire hazard
Samsung recalled Maytag and Samsung front loading washing machines over a documented fire hazard.