data breach

  1. K

    SANBS' minor data breach

    While minor, it seems no one is aware of this - just a silently posted pdf on their website. tl:dr 3 peoples info was given to someone pretending to be a SANBS staffer. SANBS wishes to inform you that we experienced a data breach on 19 July 2022 and, accordingly, this notice serves as...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    US court system suffered big hack in 2020

    US court system suffered big hack in 2020 Three hostile foreign actors breached the federal courts document management system via “an incredibly significant and sophisticated” cyberattack more than 18 months ago, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said on Thursday. Representative...
  4. Jan

    RansomHouse auctioning Shoprite money transfer customer data

    Shoprite customer data is being auctioned on the dark web Customer data stolen from Africa’s largest supermarket chain is being auctioned by dark web extortion market RansomHouse, with bidding open at 20 bitcoin (R6.7 million). Shoprite fell victim to the cyber extortion gang earlier this...
  5. Jan

    Dis-Chem discloses data breach of 3.7 million client records

    Dis-Chem data breach — 3.7 million client records exposed Dis-Chem Pharmacies has revealed that nearly 3.7 million of its clients' records were compromised during an incident involving a third-party service provider. The pharmacy group explained that it had a contract with the third-party...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    TransUnion staring down R10-million fine over data breach

    TransUnion staring down R10-million fine over data breach Credit bureau TransUnion could be slapped with a R10-million fine after it suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information of millions of South Africans, the Information Regulator of South Africa has said. The company...
  7. Jan

    Most SA companies don't report employee data breaches

    Shocking number of South African companies don't report employee data breaches 46% of South African companies prefer not to disclose data breaches in which their employees' personal information was leaked, according to Kaspersky's Employee Wellbeing 2021 report. The cybersecurity solutions...
  8. Jan

    E-mail addresses and WordPress admin passwords compromised in GoDaddy breach

    1.2 million email addresses exposed in GoDaddy breach A security breach of GoDaddy's provisioning system exposed the email addresses and passwords of WordPress customers.
  9. O

    Do you allow users to use company email account to register for web services?

    Up to now there haven't been any official restrictions at my org. I have two users out of about 70 who get spammed because their email addresses were compromised in breaches where they'd registered with their work accounts, but fortunately that's the worst of it. It seems that the standard...
  10. Hanno Labuschagne

    You can now check if your phone number was exposed in Facebook data leak

    You can now check if your phone number was exposed in Facebook data leak Online security platform Have I Been Pwned has added the ability for users to check if their mobile number has been compromised in the recent Facebook data leak. The personal data of 533 million Facebook users who formed...
  11. J

    Job seeker details exposed in big data breach

    Job seeker details exposed in big data breach SafetyDetective's research lab has unearthed a data breach which exposed 3GB of data affecting over 1.6 million people. The leaked information was stored on a server in Mumbai, India, and contained personal contact information and other data on...
  12. J

    How to check if your data was stolen in recent leaks and breaches

    How to check if your data was stolen in recent leaks and breaches Over the past year, there have been several data breaches and leaks which affected millions of South Africans. Two such incidents were the “Master Deeds” leak almost a year ago, and the traffic fine payments platform database...
  13. J

    9.4 million customers affected by Cathay Pacific security breach

    9.4 million customers affected by Cathay Pacific security breach Cathay Pacific, the primary airline of Hong Kong, was hit with a major data breach, affecting up to 9.4 million passengers. Personal information including passport numbers, identity numbers, credit card numbers, frequent flyer...
  14. J

    Has your account information ever been compromised due to a data breach?

    Has any of your online account information ever been compromised due to a hack or data leak?
  15. Kevin Lancaster

    SA fails to make data breaches public: expert

    SA fails to make data breaches public: expert Just five data breaches were registered in South Africa in 2015 but this figure may not show the whole picture, says digital security services company Gemalto.
  16. QuintonB

    How to save yourself from payment data breaches

    5 ways to protect yourself from data breaches Data breaches at retailers aren’t going away but there are ways consumers can protect themselves from future heists of their payment card information.
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