Data breach
Experian (South Africa)
1 284 637 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2020-08-19.
Breached2020-08-19Added to HIBP2020-09-01 UTCUpdated by HIBP2020-09-02 UTCAccounts1 284 637Domain—
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
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 as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- Employers
- Government issued IDs
- Names
- Occupations
- Phone numbers
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.
HIBP names no domain for this breach.
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC