South Africa is easy pickings for hackers

06 July 2016 - 08:35
By GRAEME HOSKEN

International cyber criminals are fleecing South Africans of hundreds of millions of rands through sophisticated attacks on the country's financial institutions. Earlier this year, hackers stole more than R180-million from Standard Bank after obtaining credit card details and using them to draw money from dozens of ATMs in Japan in a co-ordinated strike.

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