Your call is being recorded – and broadcast to the internet
News24 · Nathan Geffen and Joel Cedras ·
An IT company has exposed thousands of telephone recordings, many dealing with confidential medical and financial matters.
- Many companies record telephone conversations with customers.
- Thousands of such conversations, many dealing with medical scheme queries, were exposed on the internet by a Gqeberha-based software company, which misconfigured a server.
- After GroundUp discovered this, we notified the companies involved, and the audio files are no longer accessible to the public. But the files were available on the internet for about two months, and it is likely that others discovered and downloaded them.