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The Information Regulator of South Africa has found that the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development have contravened section 19 of 2022 of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).

The regulator investigated the data breaches after the Department suffered security compromises almost two years ago.

In a statement, the regulator says the department failed to put in place adequate technical measures to monitor and detect unauthorised exfiltration of data from their environment, saying this resulted in the loss of over 1 000 files. “Following the assessment, the Regulator found that the department had failed to put in place adequate technical measures to monitor and detect unauthorised exfiltration of data from their environment resulting in the loss of approximately 1204 files. This occurred as a result of the DoJ & CD’s failure to renew the Security Incident and Event Monitoring licence which would have enabled it to monitor unusual activity on their network and keep a backup of the log files.

Internal and external security risks were also not identified to protect the personal information, says Tlakula.

 

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