N4ughtysecTU
- First seen
- 2022-03-01 00:00:00
- Origin
- BR
- Primary motivation
- financial-gain
- Sophistication
- intermediate
- Resource level
- team
- Actor type
- criminal
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:09:46
Targeted industries: financial-services
Context
In March 2022, a hacking group calling themselves N4ughtySecTU claimed to have breached TransUnion’s systems and threatened to leak four terabytes of data if the credit bureau didn’t pay a $15-million (R242-million) ransom.
Reports & references
- mybroadband.co.za — 438982 How Bank Customers Can Protect Themselves After Hackers Leak Transunion Data (report)
- cisoseries.com — Cyber Security Headlines March 21 2022 (report)
- mybroadband.co.za — 443090 Cybercriminals Love South Africa Study (report)