When we first got the intel that data is available for sale – we wasted no time and jumped on the investigation.
Why were we intrigued: We have customers from South Africa at AmIbreached.com who are utilising our services, and we suspected that some of them might be using this bank.
About NedBank: Nedbank Group is a financial services group in South Africa offering wholesale and retail banking services as well as insurance, asset management, and wealth management. Nedbank Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nedbank Group. Nedbank’s primary market is South Africa.
On this instance, our researchers decided to progress. But looking at the data itself, we weren’t wrong as it did have significant information in it.
What’s next: Cyble is indexing this information at the darkweb monitoring engine. Users’ who are registered at Cyble’s data breach monitoring platform, AmIbreached.com , will receive an automatic notification if their information is affected.
About Cyble:
Cyble Inc.’s mission is to provide organizations with a real-time view of their supply chain cyber threats and risks. Their SaaS-based solution powered by machine learning and human analysis provides organizations’ insights to cyber threats introduced by suppliers and enables them to respond to them faster and more efficiently.
Cyble strives to be a reliable partner/facilitator to its clients allowing them with unprecedented security scoring of suppliers through cyber intelligence sourced from open and closed channels such as OSINT, the dark web and deep web monitoring and passive scanning of internet presence. Furthermore, the intelligence clubbed with machine learning capabilities fused with human analysis also allows clients to gain real-time cyber threat intel and help build better and stronger resilience to cyber breaches and hacks. Due to the nature of the collected data, the company also offer threat intelligence capabilities out-of-box to their subscribers.
