Court hears of impact of Experian data breach by hacker Karabo Phungula

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Court hears of impact of Experian data breach by hacker Karabo Phungula
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Court hears of impact of Experian data breach by hacker Karabo Phungula: Data services firm, Experian has incurred more than R5,6m in costs since its data breach incident, to prevent harm and further proliferation of the information.

Karabo Phungula was convicted of fraudulently obtaining the personal data of millions of South Africans last year.Data services firm, Experian has incurred more than R5.6m in costs since its data breach incident, to prevent harm and further proliferation of the information.

Pieterse was testifying during the mitigating factors and aggravating circumstances of the sentencing of Karabo Phungula. In October last year, the court found Phungula guilty of illegally acquiring personal and business data from data services firm Experian. “Typically clients of ours will approach us with specific data or specific requirements to address their own data for collection services. We will then go and analyse and provide them with market insights, with information so that they can do either marketing campaigns or update their own marketing data,” he said.

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