ShellCodeX Breach Report
Experian (South Africa) Data Breach
Verified breach
Accounts exposed
1,284,637
Breach date
19 Aug 2020
Added to tracker
01 Sep 2020
Data classes
6
What happened
In August 2020, Experian South Africa suffered a data breach which exposed the personal information of tens of millions of individuals. Only 1.3M of the records contained email addresses, whilst most contained government issued identity numbers, names, addresses, occupations and employers, amongst other person information.
Exposed data
Email addresses
Employers
Government issued IDs
Names
Occupations
Phone numbers
Recommended actions
- Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Experian (South Africa) — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
- Stay alert for smishing (SMS phishing) and SIM-swap attempts using your phone number.
- Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
- Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
Check on HIBP
