MasterDeeds datalek

Wat er gebeurde

In March 2017, a 27GB database backup file named "Master Deeds" was sent to HIBP by a supporter of the project. Upon detailed analysis later that year, the file was found to contain the personal data of tens of millions of living and deceased South African residents. The data included extensive personal attributes such as names, addresses, ethnicities, genders, birth dates, government issued personal identification numbers and 2.2 million email addresses. At the time of publishing, it's alleged the data was sourced from Dracore Data Sciences (Dracore is yet to publicly confirm or deny the data was sourced from their systems). On 18 October 2017, the file was found to have been published to a publicly accessible web server where it was located at the root of an IP address with directory listing enabled. The file was dated 8 April 2015.

Gecompromitteerde informatie

• Dates of birth
• Deceased statuses
• Email addresses
• Employers
• Ethnicities
• Genders
• Government issued IDs
• Home ownership statuses
• Job titles
• Names
• Nationalities
• Phone numbers
• Physical addresses

Bevestiging

Vier onafhankelijke databases registreren dit lek en zijn het niet altijd eens. Elke balk is de telling van één bron.

Bronnen en linkmethoden

• HIBP

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