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iFacts Exposes 21,000 Sensitive Files of South African Citizens
A misconfigured server left 11.83 GB of highly sensitive personal data publicly accessible, including ID documents, photos, resumes, certificates and background reports.
Full report:
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iFacts Exposes 21,000 Sensitive Files of South African Citizens
A misconfigured server left 11.83 GB of highly sensitive personal data publicly accessible, including ID documents, photos, resumes, certificates and background reports.
Full report:
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It irks me for as much as America complains about China, China has actual data protection laws, whilst Americans keep having their most sensitive data leaked in breaches. Then Politicians in the USA get pissed off at China for wanting to protect their citizens.
Look China may not be perfect and has their own set of issues but this is one Area they are clearly ahead of the USA on.
Canada, EU, South Africa all have data rights too
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The Department of Justice & Constitutional Development’s failure to buy antivirus software, as ordered by the information regulator, has earned it a R5m fine — the highest penalty yet imposed for noncompliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia).
The department suffered a cyberattack in 2021 that resulted in the loss of more than 1,200 files, with encryption of internal documents and personal information being compromised. It forced the court recording systems offline, which led to postponements at lower courts.
It emerged that the department had not renewed its antivirus software, including its intrusion detection licence, that would have flagged suspicious activity by unauthorised people accessing the network. In response, the information regulator issued an enforcement order in May obliging the department to show it had taken remedial action.
The department had two alternatives when it received the order in May: either purchase antivirus software and start disciplinary action, or appeal against the order.
The regulator imposed the fine on Monday after the department failed to do either. This was despite a warning by the regulator that noncompliance with the enforcement order could lead to an administrative fine of up to R10m, or the imprisonment of the responsible officials.
So we finally, after quite a few years, actually see what appears to be one of the first actual fines imposed in South Africa for contravention of the POPI Act. This is very important for two reasons. Firstly, that the Act is seen to be enforced (to prevent others being so tardy), and secondly, that government departments themselves take the precautions that they should be with citizens' private data. Government departments especially gather a lot of very private citizen information, including everything related to a person's identity.
Yes, it is ironical that this happened with the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development themselves, but this also illustrates the "tardiness" on the side of government, who probably expected that the Act would mainly be focussing on private companies.
Citizens are already becoming very cautious about parting with their private information, and I predicted last month that we are going to see lots of POPI Act issues around the fact that every small charitable donation, now requires those small charities to collect all sort of private information for tax deduction purposes. Such small non-profits are woefully under skilled and underfunded to protect that information.
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South African government department fined R5 million in terms of the POPI Act for its tardiness with fixing IT breaches
The Department of Justice & Constitutional Development’s failure to buy antivirus software, as ordered by the information regulator, has earned it a R5m fine — the highest penalty yet imposed for noncompliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act ( ...continues
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South African government department fined R5 million in terms of the POPI Act for its tardiness with fixing IT breaches
The Department of Justice & Constitutional Development’s failure to buy antivirus software, as ordered by the information regulator, has earned it a R5m fine — the highest penalty yet imposed for noncompliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act ( ...continues
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South African government department fined R5 million in terms of the POPI Act for its tardiness with fixing IT breaches
https://gadgeteer.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/jail-400x231.jpg The Department of Justice & Constitutional Development’s failure to buy antivirus software, as ordered by the information regulator, has earned it a R5m fine — the highest penalty yet imposed for noncompliance with the Protection […]
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South African government department fined R5 million in terms of the POPI Act for its tardiness with fixing IT breaches
https://gadgeteer.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/jail-400x231.jpg The Department of Justice & Constitutional Development’s failure to buy antivirus software, as ordered by the information regulator, has earned it a R5m fine — the highest penalty yet imposed for noncompliance with the Protection […]
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-bcf1b4be-4e362776d0a836f8
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Information Regulator #SouthAfrica's teething problems https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/487917-1400-complaints-and-not-a-single-fine-why-popias-promise-appears-to-fall-flat.html #POPIA
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Regarding outcomes of PAIA requests & POPIA complaints.
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RT @InforegulatorSA
The Regulator will give an update on the findings of its high-profile investigations tomorrow. Follow the link👇 for more information
http://ow.ly/x8ia50NzRwS
#popia #paia
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@kaasbaas and don't think we are immune in #SouthAfrica . If you look at the T's & C's of the Banks, Cell Networks and other Call-Centers, you will find that data 'may be' analysed in 3rd countries and although I can't prove it, I would not be surprised if they are using the Amazon Call-Center Tech. Which, according to my interpretation of the #POPI Act #POPIA is illegal. Profiling, processing in a 3rd Country, Mood Analysis etc.
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@CrazyMyra Please note that any person who wishes to submit a complaint contemplated in section 74(1) of the POPI Act must submit such a complaint to the Regulator on Form 5. Here you can download your copy of Form 5. https://drive.proton.me/urls/D1K4T3RHP4#GN5X8GwD6yxT Then send it to: [email protected] ••••••• #POPIAct #POPI #POPIA #SouthAfrica