Liberty has told MyBroadband that its investigation into a recent IT security breach is ongoing, and the company is working with authorities on the matter.<\/p>\n
“Liberty can confirm that the matter of the illegal and unauthorised access to its IT infrastructure by an external party is still subject to a criminal investigation and we are working with the relevant authorities,” said Liberty.<\/p>\n
“Following the incident we proactively contacted all impacted employees and customers and reiterate that no customer has suffered any financial loss as a result of this unfortunate incident.”<\/p>\n
“Liberty remains in full control of its IT environment following significant steps to further secure our systems.”<\/p>\n
“Liberty will update all relevant stakeholders on the outcome of the investigation as more information becomes available.”<\/p>\n
Liberty Holdings CEO David Munro stated in June 2018 that hackers had attacked its IT infrastructure and gained access to the company\u2019s mailing service.<\/p>\n
Munro stated that the data affected by the hack consisted largely of recent emails.\u00a0It was also limited to Liberty\u2019s operations in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Munro said no clients had suffered financial losses as a result of the attack, and the company\u2019s policies and transactions remained in place.<\/p>\n
He added that the identity of the hackers was being investigated, and that an extortion attempt against the company was made.<\/p>\n
Liberty told MyBroadband that its investigation into a recent IT security breach is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":256777,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35,25945,53711],"class_list":["post-274575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-headline","tag-liberty","tag-liberty-hack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274575"}],"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=274575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274725,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274575\/revisions\/274725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}