{"id":92837,"date":"2013-12-02T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=92837"},"modified":"2013-12-03T08:31:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T06:31:02","slug":"afrihost-data-leak-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/92837-afrihost-data-leak-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"Afrihost data leak explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Afrihost\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307435-Afrihost\">Afrihost<\/a> informed its clients that their use of Google\u2019s online tools lead to the name and physical address of 18,000 of its ADSL clients become available online for a short while.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband received a list of around 18,800 names and addresses of Afrihost ADSL clients, which were downloaded as in Excel format. The list was discovered after a Google search.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost CEO <a title=\"Gian Visser\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/301335-Gian-Visser\">Gian Visser<\/a> explained that they used a Google tool to plot a group of managed ADSL line clients on Google Maps, which lead to the details becoming available online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were doing this to research the geographic distribution of these clients to try and improve certain facets of the product,\u201d said Visser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe obviously believed this information was completely private but unfortunately Google indexed this info and the addresses could be found through very specific searches on Google.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visser said that as soon as they found this out they removed this information from the Google product they were using. \u201cNone of this info is available anymore,\u201d said Visser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of the fact that this information has been removed I&#8217;d like to offer my sincere, unreserved apologies &#8211; the privacy and security of your information is one of our top priorities &#8211; and the fact that this inadvertently happened means we let you down,\u201d said Visser.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Afrihost<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"New Afrihost uncapped ADSL bundle prices unveiled\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/92349-new-afrihost-uncapped-adsl-bundle-prices-unveiled.html\"><strong>New Afrihost uncapped ADSL bundle prices unveiled<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Afrihost capped ADSL prices slashed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/87093-afrihost-capped-adsl-prices-slashed.html\"><strong>Afrihost capped ADSL prices slashed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost explained the data leak where 18,000 of its ADSL clients\u2019 names and addresses were exposed online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1669,1988,167,35],"class_list":["post-92837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adsl","tag-afrihost","tag-gian-visser","tag-google","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92837"}],"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=92837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92893,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92837\/revisions\/92893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}