South Africa’s biggest data breach affects over 30 million citizens — and nobody knows where it came from
Oct18
Earlier on 18 October 2017, the team at iAfrikan and I published all the details we knew at the time regarding what we thought was South Africa’s largest-ever data breach. This was after I had called Troy Hunt, the security consultant, researcher and founder of have i been pwned?, who had initially discovered and announced the data breach. “I typically receive many files relating to data breaches daily but what struck me about this one was that it was 27GB in size,” explained Hunt in a conversation with iAfrikan. The data included the records of at least 30 million South Africans, but the actual…
This story continues at The Next Web