South Africa’s official companies database hacked

The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission has revealed it suffered a security breach leading to the compromise of its clients’ and employees’ personal information.The CIPC is South Africa’s official regulatory body for registering companies, co-operatives, and intellectual property rights — including trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights.

The CIPC said its ICT and information security teams isolated and curtailed the compromise, allowing the relevant systems to be restored and available for processing. “Unfortunately, certain personal information of our clients and CIPC employees was unlawfully accessed and exposed.” The CIPC did not reveal any more information regarding the nature of the exposed data but urged its clients to be vigilant in monitoring credit card transactions and only authorise known and valid transaction requests.

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