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South Africans exposed in another massive data breach:

Source: SA Migration, 25/05/2018

South Africans exposed in another massive data breach:
Close to a million (934,000) personal records of South Africans have
reportedly been publicly exposed online, following what appears to be a
governmental leak.
According to a report by iAfrikan journalist Tefo Mohapi and â€˜Have I
been pwnedâ€˜ analyst Troy Hunt, the data includes, among others,
national identity numbers (ID numbers), e-mail addresses, full names,
as well as plain text passwords to what appears to be a traffic fine-
related online system.
Mohapi said the data was backed up or posted publicly by one of the
companies responsible online payments of traffic fine in South Africa.
â€œThis is yet another reminder of how far our data can spread without
our knowledge. In this case, in particular, the presence of plain text
passwords poses a serious risk because, inevitably, those passwords
will unlock many of the other accounts victims of the breach use.
â€œThis one incident has likely already led to multiple other breaches of
online accounts due to that reuse,â€said Hunt, quoted by iAfrikan.
Posting on Twitter, Hunt said that leak will be uploaded to his website
shortly, allowing South Africans to check if they have been affected by
the breach.
This marks the second major breach in just under a year, with over 60
million South African exposed in a similar data breach in 2017.
It was recently reported that 96,000 South Africans were also affected
by the recent Cambridge Analytica breach

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