Cybercriminals stalk SA

10 November 2015 - 02:02
By Nivashni Nair

Crafty cybercriminals are stalking South Africans online, studying their every move via their e-mail accounts - and stealing millions. Elite crime-fighting unit the Hawks and computer forensic investigators yesterday said there was an increase in the number of cases in which online e-mail accounts, such as Gmail, were hacked, monitored and then used to intercept financial transactions without the user's knowledge.

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