{"id":234358,"date":"2017-10-30T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=234358"},"modified":"2017-10-30T15:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:01:52","slug":"how-to-protect-yourself-against-data-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/234358-how-to-protect-yourself-against-data-breaches.html","title":{"rendered":"How to protect yourself against data breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) has provided guidelines on how to protect yourself against data breaches.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the large <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/233853-massive-south-african-database-leak-just-got-bigger-60-million-records-online.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>database leak<\/strong><\/a> which exposed the personal information of millions of South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Sabric encouraged consumers to protect their information by sharing it selectively and on a need-to-know basis only.<\/p>\n<p>Personal information includes ID documents, driver\u2019s licences, passports, addresses, and contact details.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, confidential information &#8211; which includes usernames, passwords, and PINs &#8211; should never be shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood identity management practices can assist in mitigating the risk of impersonation, should the information be compromised,\u201d said Sabric.<\/p>\n<p>Sabric recommended that South Africans take the following measures due to the data leak:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Implement dual authentication for all accounts and products, especially for financial services.<\/li>\n<li>Register for SMS notifications to alert you when products and accounts are accessed.<\/li>\n<li>Conduct regular credit checks to verify whether someone has applied for credit using your information.<\/li>\n<li>Investigate and register for credit-related alerts offered by credit bureaus.<\/li>\n<li>Check your bank statements regularly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sabric also encouraged consumers to implement tips given by the banking industry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t carry unnecessary personal information in your wallet or purse.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t disclose passwords and PINs when asked to do so by anyone via telephone, fax, or email.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t write down PINs and passwords, and avoid using birth dates and names.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use personal identifiable information as a password or PIN.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t use Internet cafes, hotels, or conference centres to do online banking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/233853-massive-south-african-database-leak-just-got-bigger-60-million-records-online.html\">Massive South African database leak just got bigger \u2013 60 million records online<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabric has provided guidelines on how to protect yourself against data breaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":229919,"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":[27],"tags":[26872,35,2360],"class_list":["post-234358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-data-breach","tag-headline","tag-sabric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234358"}],"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=234358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234444,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234358\/revisions\/234444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}