Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-03-18 00:00:00
Affected organization: TransUnion South Africa
Affected country: South Africa
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: N4ughtysecTU
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: TransUnion South Africa discloses that hackers breached one of their servers using stolen credentials and demanded a ransom payment not to release stolen data (54 million customer records).