Crime Time: Cybercriminals Are Targeting SA Sports Clubs
The Aubrey Masango Show · 16 July 2026 · 10m
Speaker 1: Seven two Crime Time. My guess is Ryan Fronder cool Vig. He's managing executive at Speaker 1: ITO Special Risk talking about cyber criminals cyber criminal syndicates to focusing on South African Speaker 1: sports clubs. Ryan, thank you so much for joining us. I really appreciate your time. Speaker 1: But before we go into this phenomenon, what does it Special Risks do? Speaker 2: Aubrey, thank you so much for having me this evening back two. Special Risks is Speaker 2: a specialist insurance provider on behalf. Speaker 3: Of hollowd Insurance Company. Speaker 2: So we provide more intangible insurance covers like your cyber insurance, medical malpractice insurance, and Speaker 2: other specialist insurances like four classic cars, art and collectibles, drones, kidnapp and ransom. We've Speaker 2: got a product portfolio around twenty nine of these specialist insurance products. Speaker 1: Right, let's talk about this phenomenon of cyber criminals focusing specifically at South African sports Speaker 1: clubs. What does that mean and what have you seen? Speaker 2: The big price that the hackers are after is data, and I think they've identified Speaker 2: that sports clubs typically hold quite a lot of sensitive data from people's contact details Speaker 2: to perhaps their ID numbers, medical information, emergency contact details, and that's the type of Speaker 2: information that hackers are after to commit their fraudulent sort of activities, conducting things like Speaker 2: phishing, email scams, doctoring invoices with some level of detail that they've compromised to try Speaker 2: and get people. Speaker 3: To act out on these things. Speaker 2: So very much that the sporting clubs that are sitting on quite a wealth of
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