V
V
Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
778K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
5
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2018
ViewFines

Breach History

ViewFines
May 2018Critical
777.6K
Records exposed
5
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In May 2018, the South African website for viewing traffic fines online known as ViewFines suffered a data breach. Over 934k records containing 778k unique email addresses were exposed and included names, phone numbers, government issued IDs and passwords stored in plain text.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesGovernment issued IDsNamesPasswordsPhone numbers
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
Government issued IDsLow risk
NamesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk
Phone numbersMedium risk