Highly sensitive information about South Africans from Experian breach now freely available online (21,263,393 unique records)

This is actually pretty detailed information about over 21 million "people", assuming a unique record represents people as even ID numbers are included. Given that the POPI Act has been a time coming and has actually been promulgated I'm really hoping a good example is set here... considering penalties include the CEO of the responsible company being sent to jail. If it's not done we can expect sloppy security and preventative measures to continue.

And for the record, even though this was socially engineered that has zero to do with the information not being protected. The POPI Act is not only for breaches of firewalls, it is for protection of personal information even if it is kept in a shoebox on paper pages. To state otherwise is inexcusable ignorance around the Act.

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Highly sensitive financial and personal information about South African citizens and businesses has been leaked online. Here are the full details.

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