Personal data on 24 million South Africans, wrongfully sold by Experian to a person it claimed had "pretended" to represent a "legitimate client", is now not only circulating on the dark web – it's also on clearweb file-sharing sites, according to reports.
Despite
assurances from Experian in August that it had obtained an Anton Piller court order - a type of search warrant in legal proceedings - to seize and destroy the data it haplessly passed on, 40 per cent of South Africa's population is now living in the knowledge that any random bod browsing Swiss file-sharing site WeSendIt could have freely downloaded their personal data. The country has a population of around 56 million people. Mobile phone numbers, state-issued personal ID numbers, home addresses, banking and work details and email addresses were all included in the file on WeSendIt,
according to South Africa's
Sunday Times.
www.theregister.com
