Over 9,000 customer call recordings exposed on South Africa’s Open V server
A server misconfiguration at South African IT company Open V reportedly exposed materials belonging to its client, Edge Financial Group, including call recordings, on the internet. There were more than 9,000 audio files, at least 1,900 of which contained calls of substantial length, including confidential medical and financial conversations. The materials are believed to have been publicly accessible since September 6, 2026, and databases, usernames, passwords, and source code were also exposed. Open V said responsibility and the cause had not been established.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Open V
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- 2026-09-06
- Scale of damage
- More than 9,000 audio files, including at least 1,900 calls of substantial length; databases, usernames, passwords, and source code exposed
- Cause / method
- Server misconfiguration
- Location
- South Africa
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Exposed dataHealth & medical data
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Timeline
- Client call recordings began to be exposed in a form accessible over the internet.
- The exposure of thousands of call recordings, including confidential medical and financial conversations, was disclosed.
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