Massive South African database leak reveals private data of 60 million people

[Newsfeed]

Massive South African database leak reveals private data of 30 million people

A database which contains the private data of millions of South Africans – including ID numbers, contact details, addresses, and income estimates – has been exposed.

 

[Marius Flash]

30 Million law suits on it's way then - this should get interesting

 

[hj007]

Don't know where it comes from, so who you going to sue? - and if it's the deeds office, isn't it basically public anyway?

 

[f2wohf]

For once, I'm happy to not own anything in SA !

 

[sajunky]

Massive indeed. However suggesting Deeds Office is not justified, as explained later in the article.

 

[labratza]

hahahhaha would be interesting to see the file

 

[Marius Flash]

Don't know where it comes from, so who you going to sue? - and if it's the deeds office, isn't it basically public anyway?

ID numbers , nope don't think so ?

 

[koeksGHT]

ID numbers , nope don't think so ?

Nooo, it's like social security numbers, lots of ID fraud coming thanks to mybb letting everyone know about this again

 

[Sinbad]

ID numbers , nope don't think so ?

Not to mention estimated income etc...

 

[konfab]

And people wonder why I don't want a smart ID.

 

[Marius Flash]

Not to mention estimated income etc...

Yep , wouldn't want to be in the shoes of the person who is responsible for this !

 

[Hemi300c]

So the POPI creators have broken their own rules and act so are they going to be punished with their own prescribed punishment?

Typical anc, just typical.

 

[koeksGHT]

So the POPI creators have broken their own rules and act so are they going to be punished with their own prescribed punishment?

Typical anc, just typical.

Laws don't apply to government as we know.

 

[Genisys]

So the POPI creators have broken their own rules and act so are they going to be punished with their own prescribed punishment?

Typical anc, just typical.

How do you know this is a Government database? Fairly possible it isn't?

 

[HibiscusTunes]

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[genetic]

For once, I'm happy to not own anything in SA !

You think this is unique to SA? :crylaugh:

Heard of the Equifax leak that has just happened in the US?

The breach Equifax reported Thursday, however, very possibly is the most severe of all for a simple reason: the breath-taking amount of highly sensitive data it handed over to criminals. By providing full names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and, in some cases, driver license numbers

https://arstechnica.com/information...ossibly-the-worst-leak-of-personal-info-ever/

 

[Tman*]

link to torrent?

 

[Adrianax]

This is not news. Just some publicity stunt.

Home Affairs released marriage certificates of tens of millions of people with ID Numbers, addresses, etc. on them to a public website. No single person in SA, nor the government can ever claim POPI Act for protection nor will they ever be able to convict any person.

As for leaked government databases, I have seen the following with my own eyes:

1. Deeds (but there are not 40m records in it, not even remotely close)
2. Home Affairs
3. SARS
4. Pension Funds
5. Telkom
6. UIF
7. Cipro

This is just a few I can remember seeing this year alone.

 

[f2wohf]

You think this is unique to SA? :crylaugh:

Heard of the Equifax leak that has just happened in the US?



https://arstechnica.com/information...ossibly-the-worst-leak-of-personal-info-ever/

Don't own anything in the US either !

The General Data Protection Regulation in the EU comes handy for this !

 

[Adrianax]

This specific database rather seem to be a collection of information that came from credit companies such as ITC, Experian, XDS and the likes. All of these companies have tracing sections where lookups are not recorded on the credit profile. Most of these companies offer packages where you can do unlimited searches at a certain price. The data probably came from one of them.