Personal Records of Nearly 1 Million South Africans Leaked Online

Tefo Mohapi, reporting for iAfrikan: Barely a year after South Africa's largest data leak was revealed in 2017, the country has suffered yet another data leak as 934,000 personal records of South Africans have been leaked publicly online. 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 fines related online system. Working together with Troy Hunt, an Australian Security consultant and founder of haveibeenpwned, along with an anonymous source that has been communicating with iAfrikan and Hunt, we've managed to establish that the data was backed up or posted publicly by one of the companies responsible for traffic fines online payments in South Africa. "I have a new leak which might be worthwhile, the database leak contains 1 million records of personal information of South African citizens. Including Identity numbers, cell phone numbers, email addresses, and passwords. I am aware of the website this was leaked from," said our source upon initial contact.

Welcome!

[Sloppy]

Now 934,000 people know, truly, what it's like to be African-American.

Finally!

[sheph]

Now we can identify who all those Nigerian princes really are.

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[Timothy Hartman]

Those tricky Nigerian princes were hiding 4000 miles south of Nigeria the whole time! Who'da thunk it?

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[Daralantan]

At least now we can verify the millions of dollars they want to give us. So what if they can't spell the country's name, and aren't even located there?!

Hopefully no race field there. They kill whites.

[Seven Spirals]

They are killing white farmers in South Africa [newsweek.com]. So, if those records include race and address, it might be fatal. The whites are moving to Australia to get away from the violence. Data leaks have consequences.

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[Anonymous Coward]

You know, you don't have to continue being as miserable as you are.

No one cares about your hate and anger. All it does is make YOU miserable.

Try not being an angry little jerkoff for just one week and see how your world changes.

Or if that doesn't appeal to you, you should kill yourself. That really is your best option.

Re:Good, fuck them.

[Tailhook]

There is a well deserved famine coming too; persecuting white farmers is crippling the food supply. The ANC is turning South Africa into another African dumpster fire.

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[Seven Spirals]

Could be he's referring to history. Ie.. what's already happened in Zimbabwe after Mugabe "expropriated" land from white farmers. Sure, you can argue the white guys are farming on "ill gotten land" but ultimately it's mostly old folks and kids who suffer when food production crashes. That and are you prepared to adjudicate every situation? I mean what if the evil white farmer just inherited it from a guy who bought the land legally from a black man (which definitely happened often) ? What if the person *was

Also, it's the rape capital of the world.

[Seven Spirals]

South Africa is also the rape capital of the world [wordpress.com]. No stats on who is raping who or why, though.

Can anyone find that guy who keeps calling me

[pecosdave]

claiming to be from HP?

HP had a data breach and they've never talked about it publicly. I sent my daughter's cheap-ass little HP Stream in for repair, new mainboard. A few months later I started getting the occasional call from a guy obviously on a script trying to convince me it has a virus. First pull up the event view "Everything you see in there is a virus" and tried to convince me to do some other crap. My buddy and I generally string those idiots along, at first I started saying "No Windows, Linux

As an American...

[DogDude]

... I shrug. Our government allows private and public companies to sell or give away any and all of the information about us they can collect.

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[bugs2squash]

That would be more satisfying than whatever system Equifax was using.