The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development in South Africa says it has suffered a ransomware attack which has also affected its website.<\/p>\n
In a statement issued on Thursday, the department said the attack happened on the evening of 6 September and has led to all its information systems being encrypted and unavailable to both internal employees as well as members of the public.<\/p>\n
All electronic services provided by the Department including issuing of letters of authority, bail services, email, and the departmental website are affected.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur IT teams are working tirelessly to restore services as soon as is practically possible,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cChild Maintenance payments for month-end have already been processed and will therefore not be impacted by the current system outage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manual recording equipment will be used to ensure that court proceedings continue as scheduled.<\/p>\n
The Office of the Chief Master is currently using a manual process to provide bereaved families with the necessary documentation that they need to bury their loved ones.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Department\u2019s IT experts are working together with state agencies to investigate and resolve the problem. So far no indication of data compromise has been detected,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Department apologises for any inconvenience this may cause to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
This ransomware attack occurred almost exactly a year after the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang claimed credit for a hack on the online systems of the Office of the Chief Justice<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n MyBroadband asked the department and the State IT Agency (SITA) for comment on the website outage.<\/p>\n The Department of Justice and Constitutional Services did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for SITA said that it does not provide website services to the department.<\/p>\n South Africa’s Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has suffered a security breach and has been locked out of all its systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":413366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2040,35,67518,30150,18068],"class_list":["post-413346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-department-of-justice-and-constitutional-development","tag-headline","tag-office-of-the-chief-justice","tag-ransomware","tag-state-information-technology-agency-sita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413360,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413346\/revisions\/413360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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