A year ago SA Durban- Cyber-security experts raised concerns at the lack of security measures on government websites in the wake of a cyber attack on the official Presidency website. If it was so easy to attack a website like that of the Presidency then one had to ask about other computer systems that contained sensitive information.
Cyber criminals appear to be winning the war of cyber security as they put South African businesses to the sword.
According to the latest IBM study, titled Costs of Data Breaches Increase Expenses for Businesses, SA companies lose on average R36 million every time they get hacked.
Now in recent news Bright Chabota a computer engineering graduate is wanted by the South African police service after he hacked into the Department of Health database and employed himself as a system administrator since June 2018.
Bright is of Zambian origin. His father is Zambian and his mother is South African.
He never actually went to work but he was getting the salary every month. Medical card and salary advice were piling up in an officer of the supposed system administrator in the department of health building in Pretoria but nobody had ever seen him.
His parents were tracked down in Alexander and they said he told them he got a job in Nelspruit. He had been sending them R7000 every month since June last year.
