Ster-Kinekor Theatres

Ster-Kinekor suffered a data breach that exposed 7 million South Africans private data.

In investigation they found there was a vulnerability in the back-end system of the old Ster-Kinekor website.

That allowed anyone to get access to individuals data, such as names, addresses, emails and passwords.

Source: https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/ster-kinekor-data-leak-means-private-data-of-7-million-south-africans-is-at-risk/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/ster-kinekor

"id": "ste1826722",
"linkid": "ster-kinekor",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "03/2017",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"

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                        'industry': 'Entertainment',
                        'location': 'South Africa',
                        'name': 'Ster-Kinekor',
                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Vulnerability in back-end system',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 7000000,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
                                                         'addresses',
                                                         'emails'],
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['names',
                                              'addresses',
                                              'emails',
                                              'passwords']},
 'description': 'Ster-Kinekor suffered a data breach that exposed 7 million '
                "South Africans' private data. An investigation found a "
                'vulnerability in the back-end system of the old Ster-Kinekor '
                "website, allowing anyone to access individuals' data, such as "
                'names, addresses, emails, and passwords.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names', 'addresses', 'emails', 'passwords']},
 'post_incident_analysis': {'root_causes': 'Vulnerability in back-end system'},
 'title': 'Ster-Kinekor Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach',
 'vulnerability_exploited': 'Back-end system vulnerability'}