By Johnathan Paoli
Statistics SA has confirmed a cybersecurity breach, but insists the incident was limited to a single human resources database, despite claims by hackers that hundreds of thousands of files were stolen.
“Stats SA is aware of a cybersecurity breach affecting one Human Resources database. The system that was breached is exclusively the HR system available for job seekers to apply online. The hacker group is called XP95,” Acting DDG for Statistical Support and Informatics, Semakaleng Thulare confirmed on Monday.
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The confirmation follows cybercrime group XP95 claiming responsibility for the attack, alleging it extracted more than 453,000 files totalling 154GB of data from a Stats SA server.
Stats SA, however, maintained that the breach did not extend to its core statistical systems, which house sensitive national datasets.
The agency confirmed it would
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