Just over a month after the law governing the protection of personal data came into force, South Africans were rattled by one of the biggest data breaches when Experian, one of the world’s top credit bureaus, became the latest cyber attack victim.
The hack of Experian’s SA division exposed the personal information of as many as 24-million South Africans and almost 800,000 businesses, said the SA Banking Risk Centre (Sabric), a nonprofit organisation set up by lenders to combat bank-related organised crime, in a statement on Wednesday...
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