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Personal Records of Nearly 1 Million South Africans Leaked Online (iafrikan.com)
Tefo Mohapi, reporting for iAfrikan: Barely a year after South Africa's largest data leak was revealed in 2017, the country has suffered yet another data leak as 934,000 personal records of South Africans have been leaked publicly online. The data includes, among others, national identity numbers (ID numbers), e-mail addresses, full names, as well as plain text passwords to what appears to be a traffic fines related online system. Working together with Troy Hunt, an Australian Security consultant and founder of haveibeenpwned, along with an anonymous source that has been communicating with iAfrikan and Hunt, we've managed to establish that the data was backed up or posted publicly by one of the companies responsible for traffic fines online payments in South Africa. "I have a new leak which might be worthwhile, the database leak contains 1 million records of personal information of South African citizens. Including Identity numbers, cell phone numbers, email addresses, and passwords. I am aware of the website this was leaked from," said our source upon initial contact.
Now 934,000 people know, truly, what it's like to be African-American.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Now we can identify who all those Nigerian princes really are.
I don't believe in karma, I just call it like I see it.
what will happen if their data goes to hands of nigerian scammers?
They are killing white farmers in South Africa. So, if those records include race and address, it might be fatal. The whites are moving to Australia to get away from the violence. Data leaks have consequences.
South Africa is also the rape capital of the world. No stats on who is raping who or why, though.
You know, you don't have to continue being as miserable as you are.
No one cares about your hate and anger. All it does is make YOU miserable.
Try not being an angry little jerkoff for just one week and see how your world changes.
Or if that doesn't appeal to you, you should kill yourself. That really is your best option.
I'm pretty sure everyone's ancestors were assholes to someone at some point, so fuck everybody, right?
claiming to be from HP?
HP had a data breach and they've never talked about it publicly. I sent my daughter's cheap-ass little HP Stream in for repair, new mainboard. A few months later I started getting the occasional call from a guy obviously on a script trying to convince me it has a virus. First pull up the event view "Everything you see in there is a virus" and tried to convince me to do some other crap. My buddy and I generally string those idiots along, at first I started saying "No Windows, Linux!" and they still try to get me to open the event viewer. We've strung them on for as long as an hour and half not getting much further than the event-viewer step, we even have some of these calls recorded.
They've never hung up on us no matter how raunchy or off topic we've gotten, I'm not sure they're able to in whatever kind of little scam factory they work for. I would be nice to able to call him back.
If I could start calling him now that would be awesome.
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There is a well deserved famine coming too; persecuting white farmers is crippling the food supply. The ANC is turning South Africa into another African dumpster fire.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
... I shrug. Our government allows private and public companies to sell or give away any and all of the information about us they can collect.
I don't respond to AC's.
White-boy computer science and white-boy security to maintain white-boy computers?
Nononono!
Our decolonized ways of thinking tell us that we can get by with VOODOO!
And anyone who steals our shit will be struck dead by lightning!
The quintessential racist nazi faggot Trump supporter doing what he does, feeling good about the misery of minorities in bleak parts of the world. God will handle you, faggot. Roughly.
Something identity thieves are not interested in for 1000!
There's literally nothing wrong with dead black people.
Or are they
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