{"id":121535,"date":"2017-10-20T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121535"},"modified":"2017-10-20T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T14:24:52","slug":"watch-massive-south-african-database-leak-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/121535-watch-massive-south-african-database-leak-explained","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Massive South African database leak explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security researcher Troy Hunt \u2013 who runs\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Have I Been Pwned?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 recently revealed a massive South African database leak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/233853-massive-south-african-database-leak-just-got-bigger-60-million-records-online.html\"><strong>Figures initially provided by Hunt<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0suggested the database contained the ID numbers of 60 million South Africans \u2013 including deceased citizens.<\/p>\n<p>New data released by Hunt shows that the database may in fact\u00a0contain the private details of every living South African \u2013 up to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt provides an overview of the data breach and how incidents like this take place, in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to skip the background, Hunt starts talking about how he started investigating the leak at around the 10 minute mark.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Weekly update 57\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GAJKo4bjhlM?start=657&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/120532-bug-in-windows-kernel-prevents-security-apps-from-detecting-malware.html\">Bug in Windows kernel prevents security apps from detecting malware<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researcher Troy Hunt \u2013 who runs\u00a0Have I Been Pwned?\u00a0\u2013 recently revealed a massive South African database leak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":121537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812,2],"tags":[25208],"class_list":["post-121535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-business","tag-troy-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121539,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121535\/revisions\/121539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}