A woman accused of hacking the internet system of Parliament’s operations officer appeared in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Cape Town on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Cleopatra Mosana was not asked to plead to 33 alleged violations of legislation involving the protection of internet-related communications.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Juan Agulhas told the court her lawyer, Greg Duncan, was in the process of making representations to his office for the withdrawal of the charges.<\/p>\n
The matter was postponed to November 15.<\/p>\n
Duncan asked that Mosana be excused from attending the November proceedings, as she now lived in Centurion.<\/p>\n
The magistrate said a warrant for her arrest would be authorised in the normal manner if she failed to attend.<\/p>\n
It would, however, only be executed if she again failed to attend the next hearing after the November one.<\/p>\n
According to the charge sheet, Mosana allegedly hacked Tango Lamani’s internet system between April and June, 2011.<\/p>\n
The charge sheet said Lamani had highly confidential and sensitive information, as well as personal information, stored on his parliamentary PC.<\/p>\n
The charge sheet said “hacking” was a term used by computer literates, and meant to gain access via the internet, into another system, without the authority or permission of the owner of the other system.<\/p>\n
According to the charge sheet, Parliament’s IT department informed Lamani that his system had been hacked.<\/p>\n
The charge sheet said Mosana was at that stage in the employ of home affairs in Cape Town, where one of the “infringing” computers was located.<\/p>\n
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