South Africa: Massive Data Leak Could Be From a Credit Bureau

The sensitive private information of 30 million South Africans, contained in a massive data breach, appears to have been hacked from a credit bureau.

This is according to Australian Microsoft regional director, Troy Hunt, who exposed the leak on Twitter on Tuesday.

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