The CEO of Sygnia has excoriated Discovery over a data breach that leaked highly sensitive client information.
one of South Africa’s top asset managers, has excoriated financial services group Discovery over an apparent data breach that leaked highly sensitive client information., South Africa’s wealthiest woman, took to social media platform X on Wednesday to lambaste Discovery Insure, Discovery ’s short-term insurance company, saying she plans to cancel all her company’s policies with Discovery over the breach.
Where is an apology? Where is a suggestion of what to do? I am cancelling everything I have ever opened with Discovery “In accordance with our commitment to transparency and protection of your personal information, we regret to inform you that some of your personal information was shared without your prior consent with an unauthorised third party. Note that none of our systems were compromised as a result of, or due to, this incident.”
“A detailed investigation revealed that the imposter most likely obtained personal information from historical third-party data breaches, including credit bureaus , messaging platforms and other data-scraping techniques.”“The impersonator used this information to pass Discovery Insure’s identification and verification screening and as such the policy schedule was obtained.
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