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Hunters International leaks Telecom Namibia customer data
Nearly 500,000 Telecom Namibia records, including officials' data, were leaked after the firm refused to negotiate.
- Organisation
- Telecom Namibia
- Disclosed
- 17 December 2024
- Affected
- 500,000
- Data
- Personal, financial and government data
- Attacker
- Hunters International
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BBC ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Hunters International leaks Telecom Namibia customer data”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 17 Dec 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-12-17-telecom-namibia-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BBC, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3l509e6x7o.
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