--- title: South African Government Pension Data Leak Fears Spark Probe description: South African government officials are investigating reports of a data breach by the LockBit ransomware gang that resulted in the leak of 668GB of sensitive... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/south-african-government-pension-data-leak-fears-spark-probe-kz3mqvkvc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: South African Government Pension Data Leak Fears Spark Probe | daily.dev og:description: South African government officials are investigating reports of a data breach by the LockBit ransomware gang that resulted in the leak of 668GB of sensitive... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/south-african-government-pension-data-leak-fears-spark-probe-kz3mqvkvc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KZ3mqVkVC.png og:image:alt: South African Government Pension Data Leak Fears Spark Probe og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # South African Government Pension Data Leak Fears Spark Probe **[Dark Reading](https://daily.dev/sources/dr)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary South African government officials are investigating reports of a data breach by the LockBit ransomware gang that resulted in the leak of 668GB of sensitive pension data from the Government Pensions Administration Agency (GPAA). The South African Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) is also involved in the investigation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#ransomware](https://daily.dev/tags/ransomware), [#data-leak](https://daily.dev/tags/data-leak) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/south-african-government-pension-data-leak-fears-spark-probe-kz3mqvkvc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"South African Government Pension Data Leak Fears Spark Probe","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/south-african-government-pension-data-leak-fears-spark-probe-kz3mqvkvc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/south-african-government-pension-data-leak-fears-spark-probe-kz3mqvkvc"},"datePublished":"2024-03-18T07:05:22.440Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:05.588Z","description":"South African government officials are investigating reports of a data breach by the LockBit ransomware gang that resulted in the leak of 668GB of sensitive...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/986dda3b28b86114acdccd19482252ea?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/986dda3b28b86114acdccd19482252ea?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Dark Reading","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Dark Reading","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/dr","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/dr"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/south-african-government-pension-data-leak-fears-spark-probe-kz3mqvkvc","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"security,ransomware,data-leak","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dark Reading","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/dr"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"South African Government Pension Data Leak Fears Spark Probe"}]} ```