Telecom Namibia cyber-attack leaks data of more than 600,000 people
Telecom Namibia was hit by a cyber-attack that leaked the information of more than 600,000 Namibians. Amupanda claimed that the Namibia Central Intelligence Service was responsible for the attack.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Telecom Namibia
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Information of more than 600,000 Namibians
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack
- Location
- Namibia
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Timeline
- Amupanda claimed that the Namibia Central Intelligence Service was responsible for the Telecom Namibia cyber-attack.
- The Telecom Namibia data leak was reported to have affected more than 600,000 Namibians.
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