{"id":7319,"date":"2009-03-13T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-13T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T13:55:00","slug":"da-fan-hacks-into-voting-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/7319-da-fan-hacks-into-voting-website.html","title":{"rendered":"DA fan hacks into \u2018voting\u2019 website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times website team at the iLab on Wednesday night stopped a hacker from artificially inflating the DA&rsquo;s online votes to over 20 000 on its saelections site.<\/p>\n<p>This followed a day of high drama on Wednesday as political parties weighed in with thousands of SMS votes. The ANC led the poll with over 15000 votes. <\/p>\n<p>Cope was second with over 5000, and the DA third with over 3000. After the hacker&rsquo;s intervention, the DA vote rose to over 20 000. <\/p>\n<p>The hacker, whose online identity has been traced, had identified a security loophole that allowed multiple votes from a single IP address. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=162231\">Election website poll rigging<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times website team at the iLab night stopped a hacker from artificially inflating the DA\u2019s online votes <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}