Samsung is investigating whether there was an incident with one of the company’s phones overheating while in the possession of a U.S. Senate staffer, a company representative told Yahoo News on Thursday. According to Megan Pollock, senior director for communications at Samsung Electronics America, Samsung was notified that a device belonging to a staffer for U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., overheated. She said Samsung is trying to get the phone from the staffer in order to perform tests. Shortly thereafter, the company issued a recall for the handset and promised owners that they would receive a safe replacement unit. Unfortunately, those replacements also had a defect that caused them to catch fire, which resulted in Samsung issuing a second recall and scrapping the entire project.

Source: GNN Liberia January 15, 2017 12:40 UTC