Customers of 45 insurers exposed in South African cyber breach

Hackers accessed the Jira platform of IT provider MIP Holdings and stole about 400,000 records of customers from roughly 45 South African insurance companies. The attackers entered via an employee's personal laptop with stolen credentials and remained in the system for about three weeks. MIP paid a ransom, but the data still appeared on a leak site.

• About 400,000 records stolen: emails, phones, policy numbers with IDs
• One file contained about 200,000 numbers for SMS distribution
• Breach occurred via employee's personal laptop with reused passwords
• MIP paid ransom, but The Gentlemen group published Hollard data