Data breach exposes millions of South Africans’ personal records
Andrew Fraser reports:
A huge trove of data, containing the personal information of millions of South Africans, including property ownership, employment history, income and company directorships, has been discovered by information security researcher Troy Hunt.
Hunt, the founder of HaveIbeenPwned.com, said the breach contains data of more than 30m unique South African ID numbers.
The data trove was discovered among a large dump of other breaches, and Hunt could identify it as South African source by the personal address details contained in it. He said that to date he hasn’t seen it offered for sale, but that “it is definitely floating around between traders”.
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