Cybersecurity

Hackers demand $60m from TransUnion and Experian, claiming data theft

Two of the country’s largest consumer credit reporting agencies, TransUnion and Experian, may have been hit by a fresh data hack, potentially exposing the financial and personal data of South Africans to risk.  The hackers, the Brazil-based N4ughtySecTU Group, which has hacked TransUnion before, had again bypassed the organisation’s firewalls and security and managed to […]

Cybersecurity

FBI hacker USDoD leaks highly sensitive TransUnion data

FBI hacker USDoD leaks highly sensitive TransUnion data Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023 Researchers from vx-underground reported that FBI hacker ‘USDoD‘ leaked sensitive data from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion. TransUnion is an American consumer credit reporting agency. TransUnion collects and aggregates information on over one billion individual consumers in over thirty countries, including “200 million files […]