Credit bureau TransUnion SA has confirmed that at least three million consumers are affected by a data breach orchestrated by a “criminal third party” which gained access to a server “through misuse of an authorised client’s credentials”.
International hackers claimed to possess the personal information of millions of South Africans after breaching TransUnion’s database, with the company refusing to pay the R222m being demanded,TransUnion said in an update on Saturday that a “criminal third party” had “aggregated and is releasing data allegedly obtained from TransUnion SA and other sources, including at least 54 million records unrelated to TransUnion from prior data breaches dating back to 2017.
“At this time TransUnion SA can confirm at least three million impacted consumers. We have identified an additional six million ID numbers where there is no personal information linked to the ID numbers that would enable us to identify the impacted consumers or to communicate with them directly at this stage.
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