Warrant Issued to Western Cape Hacker

A warrant of arrest has been issued in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court for a woman accused of hacking the internet system of Parliament's operations officer.

The court official said, Cleopatra Mosana failed to appear in court. The warrant would be issued if she failed to appear by 11 December. Mosana faces 33 charges of violating legislation involving the protection of internet-related communications.

According to the charge sheet, Mosana allegedly hacked Tango Lamani's internet system between April and June 2011. Lamani had confidential and sensitive information, as well as personal information, on his parliamentary computer and the parliament's IT department informed Lamani that his system had been hacked.

Prosecutor Juan Agulhas told the court her lawyer, Greg Duncan, asked that Mosana be excused from attending the November proceedings, as she now lived in Centurion, Pretoria.

Mosana was at that stage in the employ of home affairs in Cape Town, where one of the "infringing" computers was located.

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