Credit bureau TransUnion has confirmed it has been hacked TransUnionHack CyberSecurity
Credit bureau TransUnion South Africa is playing a cat and mouse game with a hacker group that is demanding a $15 million ransom over four terabytes of compromised data.
“We have received an extortion demand and it will not be paid,” the credit bureau says in a statement to ITWeb. So weak were the IT systems that the password TransUnion used was the word “Password”, says the group.“We are N4ughtySec Group hackers. We have hacked TransUnion South Africa since 2012,” the hacker group claims.
The group is now threatening the credit bureau that if the ransom is not paid, it will expose the data or target the clients. As a precautionary measure, it says, TransUnion South Africa took certain elements of its services offline.
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