Data breach
eThekwini Municipalityeservices.durban.gov.za
81 830 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2016-09-07.
Breached2016-09-07Added to HIBP2016-09-15 UTCUpdated by HIBP2016-09-15 UTCAccounts81 830Domaineservices.durban.gov.za
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In September 2016, the new eThekwini eServices website in South Africa was launched with a number of security holes that lead to the leak of over 98k residents' personal information and utility bills across 82k unique email addresses. Emails were sent prior to launch containing passwords in plain text and the site allowed anyone to download utility bills without sufficient authentication. Various methods of customer data enumeration was possible and phishing attacks began appearing the day after launch.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Dates of birth
- Deceased date
- Email addresses
- Genders
- Government issued IDs
- Names
- Passport numbers
- Passwords
- Phone numbers
- Physical addresses
- Utility bills
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC