This is the worst prank or best revenge you can play on a Galaxy Owner!

There is a link that you create that can totally wipe out your Samsung Galaxy II or Samsung Galaxy S3 just by clicking it. This also potentially effects devices running the TouchWiz launcher found on Samsung’s phones. Basically how this works is that brings up the dialer and enters in the * and # codes to trigger a hard reset on your Samsung device.

Samsung has already commented stating that they are “looking into it.”

Update 9/26/2012 - Samsung has since responded, with a  promising action and a statement to TechCrunch that confirmed Android Police’s assertion that “the security issue … has already been resolved.” The statement urged SIII users to update if they have not already done so, but the status of older devices, such as the SII, is not yet clear. Updates can be downloaded using Samsung’s Over-The-Air service.

Note: According to this tweet:

the USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 is *2767*3855# can be triggered from browser like this:

— Pau Oliva (@pof)

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