One of South Africa's largest companies has reported a data breach at one of its subsidiaries, though haven't revealed which one.

Last year, Epic Games was subject to a data breach that potentially exposed login details for millions of user accounts. The breach came through an exploit that allowed attackers to steal credentials through single link clicks. As Check Point Research detailed when the 2018 attacks were acknowledged in January this year:

Another week, another Facebook data breach. Though this time its not Facebook itself that is at fault, but rather some of its app developers.

In November last year, Hetzner, one of the country’s largest web and data hosting services suffered a major breach that exposed customer details, domain names, FTP passwords and banking details. Annnnnd it's happened again.

Google+ has always been the joke of social networks; the one that people point and laugh at when discussing the number of people who log in every day. This, however, is no laughing matter. The Wall street Journal revealed that Google+ suffered a data breach that exposed the details of hundreds of thousands of users (yes, there were actually more …

Reddit is one of the biggest sites on the internet, attracting hundreds of millions of users every month. Commonly called the front page of the internet, Reddit disclosed yesterday that it suffered a security breach.

In what is likely the biggest data breach in South African history, it appears all of our sensitive information may have been leaked online.

While Ster-Kinekor's transition to their new site was an absolutely disaster, it seems it may have avoided an even worse disaster.