Claims that the basic education department’s website has been hacked are false, it said on Friday.<\/p>\n
“These claims are both false and misleading,” spokesman Terence Khala said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The Times reported on Friday that the department was in turmoil after its website suffered a “catastrophic hack attack”.<\/p>\n
Insiders told the publication that information related to policy, tenders, research papers, personal information, and matric results, had gone missing.<\/p>\n
Khala said the department had lost no data, and all information was backed up.<\/p>\n
“A week ago, the website server crashed at the Sita (State Information Technology Agency) centre in Centurion. There was no hacking at all.”<\/p>\n
Khala said it was highly improbably that a government department would store all its information on a website.<\/p>\n
“The department is not in turmoil and, in fact, the sensationalism is unfortunate.”<\/p>\n
He urged website visitors to be patient while data was loaded back onto the site.<\/p>\n
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