{"id":155278,"date":"2016-02-16T08:58:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T06:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=155278"},"modified":"2016-02-16T09:16:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T07:16:36","slug":"anonymous-hacks-and-leaks-south-african-government-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/155278-anonymous-hacks-and-leaks-south-african-government-data.html","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous hacks and leaks South African government data"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Hacker Team, a group who associates themselves with the Anonymous collective and #OpAfrica, has announced that it has\u00a0hacked the website of the South African Department of Water Affairs.<\/p>\n

The group said it attacked the site as part of Operation Africa (#OpAfrica).<\/p>\n

When Anonymous first announced #OpAfrica, it said that it’s about \u201ca disassembly of corporations and governments that enable and perpetuate corruption on the African continent\u201d.<\/p>\n

It will also focus on the issues of child labour and Internet censorship in Africa.<\/p>\n

News of the Water Affairs hack comes after the same group announced last week that it had hacked a web portal<\/strong><\/a> belonging to the Government Communications and Information Systems department.<\/p>\n

As with the previous hack, the group dumped lists of usernames and passwords, some hashed and some stored in plain text, along with a host of other sensitive information.<\/p>\n

This includes full names, e-mail addresses, and phone and ID numbers.<\/p>\n

Unlike the hack on the GCIS, the dump from Water Affairs also includes highly sensitive financial data, and details of projects.<\/p>\n

The screenshot below is one of several posted by the group, and shows some of the project data it leaked in the hack.<\/p>\n

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Department of Water Affairs hack screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n

More on #OpAfrica<\/h3>\n

The South African government passwords cracked in Anonymous database hack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This is how Anonymous hacked over 200 South African websites<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

ANC Government on Anonymous hack list<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World Hacker Team reports that it hacked the Department of Water Affairs website, and leaked a massive amount of sensitive data online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":155280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18668,27],"tags":[189,35490,22745,35,35336],"class_list":["post-155278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-security","tag-anonymous","tag-department-of-water-affairs-dwa","tag-government-communications-and-information-system-gcis","tag-headline","tag-opafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155292,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155278\/revisions\/155292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}