Eskom continues to battle corruption inside the organization. The latest: insiders suspected to be involved in creating illegal prepaid electricity tokens.
While state-owned power utility Eskom has been weeding out corrupt elements within the organization, it continues to unearth new ways criminals are robbing the company and stealing from legitimate customers.a breach of its online vending systemEskom appointed an external IT company to conduct a forensic probe into the breach and to make recommendations on fixing the system’s vulnerabilities.
“The system should not permit any external vending channel to vend a token if the vending agent cannot communicate with the Eskom server or cannot be authenticated via the secure protocol.” For this reason, Eskom strongly suspects that some of its own staff had successfully colluded with illicit operators and compromised the OVS to help create and sell fraudulent prepaid electricity tokens.
Eskom said it did not have access to the information gathered through the investigation De Ruyter commissioned.
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