KATE THOMPSON DAVY: TransUnion hack is a real test for privacy law and another headache for credit consumers

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There are different versions of events while the information regulator waits in the wings with a ruler

Late last week, with the long weekend bearing down on us, news broke that TransUnion Africa — one of the country’s biggest possessors and processors of personal and financial data — had fallen victim to a cyberattack that may leave the personal details of 54-million South Africans exposed.

The group claiming responsibility for the breach goes by N4ughtySec, but you may see this reported as N4ughtySecTU in some stories. I assume the addition of the last two letters relates specifically to TransUnion, which uses TU in its branding. N4ughtySec does keep busy so this kind of differentiation seems pretty practical...

 

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Not quite, the real test for privacy laws in SA despite POPI is forcing vaccines on hungry people despite their Constitutional rights. The author of that cancerous attempts of raping our rights is the current leadership and an evil profit driven private sector.

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