Stats SA confirms systems breach

JOHANNESBURG - Stats SA has confirmed that its systems have been breached.

Cybercrime group XP95 is claiming responsibility for the attack. It's the second hit on a government entity in a month.

In the latest incident, XP95 claim they have taken over 400-thousand files and 154 Gigabytes of data.

But Statistics SA says the breach only affected a Human Resources database.

Stats SA holds census data, economic indicators, employment figures, and demographic information of millions of South Africans.

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