Information regulator nails TransUnion for massive data breach in South Africa

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Information regulator nails TransUnion for massive data breach in South Africa
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TransUnion has been hit with an enforcement notice from South Africa’s Information Regulator over multiple failings uncovered in a 2022 data breach that impacted 3 million consumers.

The Information Regulator of South Africa has issued an enforcement notice to credit bureau TransUnion, giving the group until 26 May 2024 to implement remedial measures to address various failings found in a major 2022 data breach.

At the time, TranUnion indicated that the breach did not take place through a systems hack or a ransomware attack. Instead, the systems were breached by the hacker group obtaining access to the TransUnion South Africa server through “misuse of an authorised client’s credentials”. Failing to prevent unlawful access to or processing of personal information through the use of compromised credentials and use of a weak password;Failing to implement the provisions of its own information security policies.

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