No company is safe from hacking attacks: Potraz.

ABOUT 50 million passwords were hacked in Africa between July 2022 and February 2023, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has said, amid calls to enhance consumer protection.

Potraz director for data protection Tsitsi Mariwo who was representing director general Gift Machengete said the digital economy without consumer protection will be disastrous.

“We are living in an exciting, yet hazardous digital world,” she said at a sensitisation workshop on the Data Protection Act in Gweru on Wednesday this week.

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