Information accessed include guest names, surnames, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and booking reference numbers.
Withdrawals resume in phases after the $6.3 billion theft, replacing 95% of the stolen assets with company funds.
Rand Mutual Assurance investigates a possible cyber security breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen 366GB of data.
ITWeb Honours SA’s Top CIOs of 2026 | ITWeb Tech Headlines, 19 - 24 October 2026
These are the stories making headlines on ITWeb this week. Transnet group CIO Pandelani Munyai and Absa's Jochem Melis, CIO of cloud, infrastructure and core platforms, were named the top public and private sector CIOs at the ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Awards 2026, with Sanlam's Theo Mabaso receiving an honourable mention.
Internal documents show Legal Aid SA ordered password resets and mandatory cyber security training after a phishing attack, even as it denies any successful breach.
Effective managed detection and response environments require boundaries between actions AI can perform and those requiring human authorisation.
The company establishes a centralised acquisitions function to identify tech businesses that can strengthen its capabilities.
The pathology lab disputes claims that 80 million patient records were exposed in a cyber attack, as forensic investigations continue.
For decades, we have treated encryption as a mathematical fortress, but we are entering a new era – Post-AI Cryptography.
Orca Fraud CEO Thalia Pillay warns financial institutions to move beyond perimeter security in the age of AI.
The organisations that get security right are those that stop treating it as a technology problem and start treating it as a people problem, says Galix.
The company says it has no exposure to the MIP breach, although a binder holder administering 6 000 funeral policies was affected.
Most organisations can defend their systems, but can they prove to an examiner that those defences were designed, tested and reviewed?
ITWeb TV: AI compels attackers and defenders to step up their game | Episode #144
ITWeb TV speaks to Gareth Redelinghuys, country MD at TrendAI, about the impact that AI continues to have on cyber security, in terms of both defence and attack. Business leaders need to understand this dynamic and how best to protect their ‘crown jewels’.
South Africa’s Digital Future in Focus as AI, Fibre and Lottery Tech Drive Innovation
These are the top stories making headlines on ITWeb this week: Incoming National Lottery operator Sizekhaya is preparing a major digital transformation of South Africa’s lottery ecosystem through new technology partnerships and an omni-channel gaming platform ahead of officially taking over the fourth National Lottery and Sports Pools licence on 1 June. Meanwhile, 1-Grid suffered a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted services across its web hosting platform. In connectivity news, Fibertime says it aims to reach one million homes by mid-2027 after rapidly expanding from 10 000 to 420 000 homes across 13 cities and seven provinces. In academia and innovation, Vukosi Marivate from the University of Pretoria was honoured with the Order of Mapungubwe in silver at the 2026 National Orders for his contributions to AI, computer science and natural language processing. Finally, Google has opened registrations for its 2026 Hustle Academy programme to help entrepreneurs and students across So