ViewFines data breach: 777K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-05-24
In May 2018, the South African website for viewing traffic fines online known as ViewFines suffered a data breach. Over 934k records containing 778k unique email addresses were exposed and included names, phone numbers, government issued IDs and passwords stored in plain text. Exposed data: email addresses, government issued ids, names, passwords, phone numbers. The breach dates from May 7, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 24, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a ViewFines account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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