{"id":349481,"date":"2019-10-28T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=349481"},"modified":"2019-10-28T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:52:10","slug":"johannesburg-working-to-restore-systems-after-hackers-demand-r500000-bitcoin-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/349481\/johannesburg-working-to-restore-systems-after-hackers-demand-r500000-bitcoin-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"Johannesburg working to restore systems after hackers demand R500,000 bitcoin ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Johannesburg is working to restore its systems after a damaging cyber attack, it said in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityofJoburgZA\/status\/1188793624835870720\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> <\/strong>on Monday (28 October).<\/p>\n<p>The city said the attack, which took place on Thursday (24 October), breached its network and resulted in unauthorised access to its systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The individuals responsible have demanded that we pay four bitcoins valued at approximately R500,000 by today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that the city will not concede to their demands and we are confident that we will be able to restore the systems to full functionality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Funzela Ngobeni said that the city has made significant progress in bringing systems online and that it should be able to restore 80% of all its systems.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the city has been able to restore its critical customer-facing systems including billing, the property valuation system, eHealth and library services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the meantime customers are advised to pay their average consumption. As systems come up, we will be phasing-in active customer services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ngobeni added that the city was working with a number of international ICT professionals and state security bodies to analyse the attack and prevent future incidents.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/property\/349453\/we-need-your-help-to-avoid-water-shedding-minister\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We need your help to avoid \u2018water shedding\u2019: minister<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Johannesburg is working to restore its systems after a damaging cyber attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":289834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-349481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349503,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349481\/revisions\/349503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}