Two months after the department of justice and constitutional development was hit by a ransomware attack, it has not yet been able to fully restore affected services.
The department’s director-general, Doctor Mashabane, made the revelation on Friday before parliament’s portfolio committee on justice.
“Unfortunately, in September 2021, the department suffered a ransomware attack, which not only impacted on the delivery of existing services enabled by technology, but also progress on our modernisation programme. At the time of the attack, the department said it had activated its business continuity plan and put contingency measures in place to ensure that the IT system challenges would not affect court operations around the country. Manual recording equipment would be used to ensure that court sittings continued as scheduled.
The department assured the committee that it was making progress to ensure that service delivery backlogs were addressed.
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