{"id":66062,"date":"2014-08-18T15:30:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=66062"},"modified":"2014-08-18T15:30:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T13:30:35","slug":"pic-wants-police-to-investigate-website-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/66062\/pic-wants-police-to-investigate-website-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"PIC wants police to investigate website hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) says that it strongly condemns the hacking of its website on Sunday by “some unscrupulous elements”.<\/p>\n

The government-owned corporation’s website was hacked by a Moroccan-based hacker under the moniker of “J4r” on Sunday (17 August).<\/p>\n

\"Hacked<\/a>

Hacked by j4r<\/p><\/div>\n

Acting CEO for the PIC, Matshepo More said in a statement that the hacked website is hosted externally “with a reputable internet service provider (ISP), and therefore this event had no impact on the PIC\u2019s internal ICT systems”.<\/p>\n

“We can confirm that no information that compromises the operations of the PIC has been acquired through this act.<\/p>\n

“In an effort to curb such criminality, the PIC will open a criminal case with the South African Police Service (SAPS) to investigate this case further,” More said.<\/p>\n

The PIC is a key driver for investment within the South African economy and is also responsible for managing funds acquired from public servants through the South African Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF).<\/p>\n

It has more than R1.6 trillion under its management.<\/p>\n

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The PIC says it strongly condemns the hacking of its website on Sunday, but assured that no damage was done and no information was compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":66002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[847,26,2994,3888],"class_list":["post-66062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-hack","tag-headline","tag-pic","tag-saps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66062","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=66062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66072,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66062\/revisions\/66072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}