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ViewFines data breach (2018)

In May 2018, the South African website for viewing traffic fines online known as ViewFines suffered a data breach. Over 934k records containing 778k unique email addresses were exposed and included names, phone numbers, government issued IDs and passwords stored in plain text.

Victim
ViewFines
records
777.6K
SectorGovernment
CountrySouth Africa

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2018-05-07, ViewFines was affected by a data breach. Approximately 777,649 accounts were exposed. In May 2018, the South African website for viewing traffic fines online known as ViewFines suffered a data breach. Over 934k records containing 778k unique email addresses were exposed and included names, phone numbers, government issued IDs and passwords stored in plain text.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#ViewFines
  2. viewfines.co.zahttps://viewfines.co.za

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