By Tobias Carroll In recent months, some of the world’s best-known technology companies — including Samsung and Microsoft — have been hacked by a group known as Lapsus$. That in and of itself isn’t all that strange; hackers have been a part of the tech landscape for decades now. But what might be a little stranger is the age of some of the parties involved. A BBC News report from late March noted that authorities in the U.K. believed that one of the group’s leaders was all of 16 years of age. And while that might seem strange as well — the idea of a company the size of Microsoft alarmed by som…