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Covid-19 Or Not, Cybercrime Is Here To Stay

IN largest-ever data leak, which exposed the personal information of around 25 million South Africans and just under 800,000 businesses. The suspected fraudster deceived credit bureau Experian under the guise of being an existing client. Despite Experian claiming that “no sensitive consumer credit or financial information was obtained by the fraudster in this incident”, the Information Regulator (South Africa) confirmed that the data made its way onto the dark web via a whistleblower. “The whistleblower has informed the regulator that the information of natural persons that is hosted on the dark web includes their cell numbers,

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