What you need to know about SA’s biggest data breach: be very annoyed
Have your personal details been compromised in what has been called SA’s biggest ever data leak?
Last week, SA social media circles and news outlets sounded the klaxon on a major data breach that contained the personal identity details of a large portion of the country’s residents. Here’s what you need to know: What happened? Earlier this year, someone (reportedly Twitter user @s7nsins) found a large file containing personal information on an open web server. "It had been published there, and then the server was configured to allow directory browsing ... anyone with a web browser could go to that address and see all the files hosted on the site," writes information security expert Troy Hunt.
At the time of writing his blog posts, Mohapi speculated that the data may have come from a credit bureau or data aggregator. He did some digging and reached out to Dracore Data Sciences to enquire if the company was the source...
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