Tunomukwathi Asino reports on what could be a very serious data breach:
The State on Tuesday succeeded in having the bail hearing in the case in which a Telecom sales executive stands accused of raping three of his biological daughters, between 1997 and 2012, postponed to Friday.
The reason for the postponement was because documents relating to the matter were allegedly stolen, after the Women and Child Protection Unit was broken into on Friday.
The computer that contained the documents vanished after the break-in.
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Was this a targeted theft or opportunistic one? And if it was targeted, towards what end?
I wish the reporting had indicated whether the data were encrypted and whether the child protection agency had backups of their files. It would be serious enough if unencrypted sensitive details were in the hands of strangers, but if the theft results in justice being obstructed, that’s just a whole other dimension of horrific.