{"id":135659,"date":"2016-09-06T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T08:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=135659"},"modified":"2016-09-06T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T08:41:14","slug":"sa-government-officials-busted-in-online-porn-data-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/135659\/sa-government-officials-busted-in-online-porn-data-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"SA government officials busted in online porn data hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breach monitoring site <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vigilante.pw\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vigilante.pw<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>recently alerted the media to <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/178456-porn-site-forums-hacked-user-details-exposed.html\"><strong>a\u00a0leak of almost 800,000\u00a0user accounts<\/strong><\/a> from the forum of porn site Brazzers.<\/p>\n<p>Passwords were stored\u00a0in plain text, without hashing or salting,\u00a0making it easy for\u00a0criminals to use these credentials to\u00a0try and get into people\u2019s\u00a0accounts on other\u00a0services.<\/p>\n<p>Vigilante.pw said it aims to raise awareness about\u00a0database breaches by providing information on security flaws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aim to inform and teach people about the importance of maintaining your privacy on the Internet, as well as keeping your personal information safe,\u201d said Vigilante.pw.<\/p>\n<p>The site\u2019s operator, who goes by \u201cKeen\u201d, told MyBroadband that the database contains 519 email address from South African domains.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these addresses are co.za. One was from an org.za domain, while four were from gov.za domains.<\/p>\n<p>The four government departments with staff who\u00a0signed up for the Brazzers forums were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lda.gov.za (Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development)<\/li>\n<li>hantam.gov.za (Hantam Municipality in the Northern Cape)<\/li>\n<li>justice.gov.za (The Department of Justice)<\/li>\n<li>sars.gov.za (South African Revenue Service)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you signed up for a Brazzers forum account,\u00a0you are encouraged to change your passwords everywhere you reused them.<\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of a section of the leaked database is posted below.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brazzers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-new-size wp-image-135663\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brazzers-640x640.png\" alt=\"Brazzers\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brazzers.png 640w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brazzers-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brazzers-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brazzers-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was republished<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/178474-the-south-african-government-departments-exposed-in-the-brazzers-porn-forum-hack.html\"> with permission from MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on government<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Government officials, Eskom employees traced in Ashley Madison hack list\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/96513\/government-officials-eskom-employees-traced-in-ashley-madison-hack-list\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Government officials, Eskom employees traced in Ashley Madison hack list<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SA cities most affected by Ashley Madison data leak\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/96399\/sa-cities-most-affected-by-ashley-madison-data-leak\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA cities most affected by Ashley Madison data leak<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 175,000 SA cheaters exposed in Ashley Madison data leak\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/96133\/175000-sa-cheaters-exposed-in-ashley-madison-data-leak\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">175,000 SA cheaters exposed in Ashley Madison data leak<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leak of almost 800,000 Brazzers forum user accounts has taken place, including the details of South African government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":7293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882,9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-135659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135667,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135659\/revisions\/135667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}