{"id":8090,"date":"2012-03-20T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=8090"},"modified":"2012-03-20T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T11:58:01","slug":"post-bank-cyber-heist-fraudster-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/8090\/post-bank-cyber-heist-fraudster-sentenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Bank cyber heist fraudster sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man involved in the Post Bank cyber heist was sentenced to 15 years in jail by the Hoopstad Magistrate&#8217;s Court in the Free State on Tuesday, the Hawks said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teboho Donald Masoleng appeared before a magistrate in Hoopstad, and pleaded guilty to charges of fraud. He was sentenced to 15 years for his role in the heist,&#8221; Colonel McIntosh Polela said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Masoleng was part of a gang that hacked into the Post Bank system and transferred R43 million into various accounts between December 31 and January 1.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in Welkom on February 12 and was charged with fraud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On arresting him, police confiscated a Mini Cooper, which he had bought using some of the loot stolen during the heist,&#8221; said Polela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man involved in the Post Bank cyber heist was sentenced to 15 years in jail by the Hoopstad Magistrate&#8217;s Court in the Free State on Tuesday, the Hawks said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,487,887,889,2025],"class_list":["post-8090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-court","tag-cyber-crime","tag-post-bank","tag-sentence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8093,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions\/8093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}