The Department of Economic Development and Tourism in Mpumalanga and the Department of Higher Education’s websites were affected as well as the National Consumer Commission (NCC) website.
According to data analyst Bryan Turner from World Wide Worx, the reasons behind this could be monetary gain as hackers sometimes demanded money to leave the site up and running.
On Tuesday, the NCC website had a message on it from Ghostsquad hackers instead of its normal home page.
Turner said: “An international scholarship from the Department of Higher Education was hacked and the hackers took down the staffing division of the same site. These were the same hackers who took down the NCC website.”
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