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South Africans' Personal Details Leaked in Massive Data Breach

Australian web security expert Troy Hunt has said that a data breach containing the private information of 30 million South Africans "is one of the worst" he has ever seen. Information contained in the leak included peoples' names, their gender, ethnicity, home ownership and contact information, identity numbers and estimated income.

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