The group, known as RansomHouse, demands ransom from the retailer and is threatening to sell the sensitive information to the highest bidder.
The advancement of cyber crime is moving into an area of cyber capture, says UJ’s professor Basie von Solms.
The pharmacy retail giant confirms certain personal information of customers was accessed by an unauthorised person at the end of April.
Ensuring POPIA compliance during an M&A transaction may require some upfront planning.
The telco wants to determine whether any of its customer information was meaningfully affected in the data breach.
The Information Regulator expresses dissatisfaction with how the embattled credit bureau is handling the data breach it suffered.
Sabric co-ordinates with banks to ensure South Africans’ personal information is not abused by the TransUnion hackers.
The hackers that broke into credit bureau TransUnion claim they have the president’s personal information.
ITWeb news editor Admire Moyo is one of the 54 million victims compromised in the credit bureau hack.
A hacker group demands the company pay a R223 million ransom over four terabytes of compromised data.
Almost 8% of analysed financial transactions conducted during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday period were potentially fraudulent, says TransUnion.