Shoprite customer data is being auctioned on the dark web

RansomHouse has put Shoprite Money Transfer customer data up for auction after the company apparently refused to communicate with the group.

Customer data stolen from Africa’s largest supermarket chain is being auctioned by dark web extortion market RansomHouse, with bidding open at 20 bitcoin .

To prove its claims, RansomHouse posted 356 files containing customer identity data to its website on the dark web. Compressed, the files are just over 400MB.It appears Shoprite has refused to communicate with the group. “This is the way large corporations prefer to deal with simple folk who entrust their personal data to these giants, not even an apology for violating all possible standards of data protection, not the slightest attempt to fix the situation.”

Shoprite said it implemented additional security measures to protect against further data loss by amending authentication processes, and fraud prevention and detection strategies to protect customer data.RansomHouse claims that Shoprite had left customers’ data wholly unprotected.

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