{"id":166922,"date":"2016-05-31T17:28:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166922"},"modified":"2016-05-31T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:31:05","slug":"mtn-online-bill-platform-back-up-after-data-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/166922-mtn-online-bill-platform-back-up-after-data-leak.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN online bill platform back up after data leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN\u2019s billing platform service has been restored after the system was taken offline\u00a0following\u00a0reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/166734-mtn-exposing-subscribers-personal-details-online.html\"><strong>clients could access one another\u2019s bills<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A subscriber told MyBroadband that he logged into\u00a0MTN\u2019s e-billing site, received a one-time PIN, and accessed the client portal.<\/p>\n<p>When he tried to download his invoices, he was shown the names, numbers, and bills of other customers.<\/p>\n<p>To find his bill, he had to use the browser\u2019s search feature to look for his number \u2013 wading through the bills of other subscribers which contained personal information.<\/p>\n<p>MTN reacted to the report by shutting down its online bill platform, saying investigations were underway to ascertain the cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMTN apologises unreservedly to affected customers for any inconvenience this may have caused,\u201d said Benjamin Marais, MTN SA CIO.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/165212-vodacom-versus-mtn-2.html\"><strong>Vodacom versus MTN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/166734-mtn-exposing-subscribers-personal-details-online.html\"><strong>MTN exposing subscribers\u2019 personal details online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/166636-mtn-to-launch-unbeatable-customisable-cellphone-contracts.html\"><strong>MTN to launch \u201cunbeatable\u201d customisable cellphone contracts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/166430-afrihost-wants-to-buy-back-shares-from-mtn-source.html\"><strong>Afrihost wants to buy back shares from MTN: source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has restored its online bill system after taking it offline following reports of a data leak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":141420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27],"tags":[36,35550,42],"class_list":["post-166922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","category-security","tag-active","tag-benjamin-marais","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166922"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166924,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166922\/revisions\/166924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}