On the 1st of March 2024, South Africa’s official regulatory body for registering companies, co-operatives, and intellectual property rights (including trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights), the CIPC, put a notice on its website about a hacking incident on Thursday, the 29th of February 2024.
Since then, additional information has come to light, which indicates this may be worse than the agency believes. Here are the five things you need to do after the CIPC hack.