2026 African National Congress (South Africa) — criminal forum claims ~2M member records (May)
Data compromised
ID numbers, phones, emails, addresses, photos per press summaries of seller claims
Technical writeup
South African specialist press (MyBroadband, May 2026) summarized underground forum marketing alleging a database of roughly two million ANC member rows containing national ID numbers, phone numbers, emails, physical addresses, and photographs. X/Twitter OSINT channels amplified similar DailyDarkWeb-style posts. BreachHistory encodes the marketing figure while stressing no authoritative ANC forensic bulletin had been indexed at catalog time—overlap with prior political leaks and reseller repackaging must be ruled out by South Africa’s Information Regulator processes.
Root cause
Alleged external exfiltration or broker resale of ANC membership data per criminal-forum advertising