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Breach occurred 2018-05-07Verifiedviewfines.co.za
What happened
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The ViewFines data breach occurred on May 7, 2018. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on May 24, 2018.
777,649 accounts were affected by the ViewFines data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The ViewFines breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Government issued IDs, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the ViewFines breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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