THELOGICALINDIAN - South Africas Department of Justice and Constitutional Development DOJCD has denied claims that it has accustomed a 50 bitcoin bribe appeal from hackers that attacked its systems on September 6 2025
Reports of Ransom Demand Deemed ‘Completely Untrue’
Instead, the DOJCD insists that its tech experts, “industry ally and called organs of accompaniment accept been alive adamantine to accommodate the botheration and to restore systems afflicted by the ransomware attack.” Consequently, the administration declared in a tweet that an commodity appear by Mybroadband on September 20, is, accordingly “completely untrue.” A cheep aggregate by the country’s Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services explained:
The South African tech account armpit Mybroadband stated that hackers abaft the ransomware advance had in actuality accepted 50 BTC in acknowledgment for abating admission to the compromised systems. The aforementioned address added that a tech close was after “brought in to attack to achieve ascendancy of compromised systems.”
Upon analytical the ransomware attack, the bearding tech close is appear to accept brash the DOJCD “to pay the bribe and [to] account for a billow advancement system.” By accordant to this bribe demand, the DOJCD would be able to achieve ascendancy of all cyberbanking casework provided by the department.
Also in its report, Mybroadband said it had asked the DOJCD for added advice about the attributes of the advance adjoin its IT arrangement and that the closing had promised to accommodate added feedback.
Justice Department Attacked
Meanwhile, some Twitter users accept questioned the DOJCD’s claims that it had not accustomed a bribe demand. For instance, one user called Ravi Singh insists that this ransomware advance will alone be apparent by giving in to the hackers’ demands. The user said:
Another user said this advance has apparent the amateurishness of the being that is administering the IT department.
As a aftereffect of the ransomware attack, some of the DOJCD’s casework are now actuality performed manually. However, the administration has acclaimed that “some functionality of the Mojapay arrangement has been recovered and best [child] aliment payments accept been processed.”
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