It has been revealed how exactly a Gauteng hacker stole R600K from the accounting software of an Eastern Cape gov department.
Now 13 years later he was been given a three-year prison sentence for the crime.
The crime took place in 2013, when Bruce Owen, in his thirties at the time, broke into the inner workings of the Eastern Cape of Education’s Basic Accounting System and used it to make payments into his own bank accounts.indicates that the money he stole was meant to buy food for learners across schools in the Eastern Cape, the poorest province in South Africa.
“This resulted in the financial loss of more than R600 000 from the government department. Owen illegally obtained information through the use of a keylogger device designed to capture all the keystrokes done on the computer keyboard,” detailed Hawks spokesperson Warrant Officer Ndiphiwe Mhlakuvana.says that keyloggers are a tool that records everything that is typed into the keyboard of a computer or even smartphone.
People who use keyloggers on their devices of others can quietly monitor activity while the other person uses the device like normal, usually unaware of the keylogger’s presence. “User behaviours and private data can easily be assembled from logged keystrokes. Everything from online banking access to social security numbers is entered into computers. Social media, email, websites visited, and even text messages sent can all be highly revealing.”Software keyloggers are computer programmes that need to be installed on a device’s hard drive. These can get on your PC via a virus from a hacker, for example.
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