Cybersecurity incident — 2020-10-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: Absa
Affected country: South Africa
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Absa employee
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: South Africa

South African financial services group Absa has revelaed that one of its employees sold the personal information of 200,000 clients to third parties.