This list of paid employers can still be downloaded in CSV format from the UIF website, but it no longer includes UIF reference numbers.<\/p>\n
After MyBroadband and the security researcher reported the issue, the UIF reference numbers were removed from the downloadable list.<\/p>\n
Armed with a list of UIF reference numbers, an attacker could go to the “My Payment Status<\/a><\/strong>” page and query the reference number.<\/p>\n While this page now features a Captcha, it did not have one a few weeks ago. The Captcha was only added after we raised the matter with the UIF.<\/p>\n Before the Captcha was implemented, it would have been simple for an attacker to write a script to extract the amounts paid and processing dates for each of the UIF reference numbers that were readily downloadable from the same website.<\/p>\n It is also still possible to look up the payment status and amount paid for anyone so long as you have their UIF reference number, or ID number.<\/p>\n The UIF does not require that you register an account or log in to look up this information.<\/p>\n Screenshots of the information returned by the My Payment Status<\/a><\/strong> page are included below.<\/p>\n MyBroadband contacted the Ministry of Labour for comment and was directed to speak directly to representatives of the UIF.<\/p>\n The UIF did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n UIF COVID-19 TERS National Disaster System payment status query form<\/p><\/div>\n UIF COVID-19 TERS National Disaster System payment status results screen<\/p><\/div>\n The Unemployment Insurance Fund has made changes to the website for its Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme after a security researcher reported a data leak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":84987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[20263,35,64793],"class_list":["post-353473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-department-of-labour","tag-headline","tag-unemployment-insurance-fund-uif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353473"}],"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=353473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353709,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353473\/revisions\/353709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}UIF COVID-19 National Disaster TERS payment status screenshots<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Now read: Supersonic fixes leak in data usage website<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"