{"id":233980,"date":"2017-10-20T11:24:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T09:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=233980"},"modified":"2017-10-20T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T09:27:51","slug":"watch-troy-hunt-explain-massive-south-african-database-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/233980-watch-troy-hunt-explain-massive-south-african-database-leak.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch Troy Hunt explain massive South African database leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security researcher Troy Hunt \u2013 who runs\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Have I Been Pwned?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 recently revealed a massive South African database leak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/233853-massive-south-african-database-leak-just-got-bigger-60-million-records-online.html\"><strong>Figures initially provided by Hunt<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0suggested the database contained the ID numbers of 60 million South Africans \u2013 including deceased citizens.<\/p>\n<p>New data released by Hunt shows that the database may in fact\u00a0contain the private details of every living South African \u2013 up to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt provides an overview of the data breach and how incidents like this take place, in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GAJKo4bjhlM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/233959-south-africas-data-leak-contains-ids-of-12-5-million-children.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">South Africa\u2019s data leak contains IDs of 12.5 million children<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researcher Troy Hunt recently revealed a massive South African database leak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":233984,"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":[25,27],"tags":[46775,33196],"class_list":["post-233980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","category-security","tag-database-leak","tag-troy-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233980"}],"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=233980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233982,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233980\/revisions\/233982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}