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FREE TO READ: Was your info leaked in SA’s big home loan IT security breach?

15 October 2019 - 07:00 By Graeme Hosken
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These systems contain information on identity documents, home loan applications and property valuations.
These systems contain information on identity documents, home loan applications and property valuations.
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The personal details of thousands of SA home loan applicants may have been exposed to a breach – but the financial technology company involved insists “security vulnerabilities have already been patched”.

Times Select asked those involved for the truth, while experts reveal how vulnerable SA’s online systems really are.

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