Earlier this year packaging firm Nampak suffered a cyberattack in which a ransomware group gained unlawful access to its IT systems and stole sensitive data. Though the core manufacturing operations were only marginally affected, Nampak incurred additional finance costs on working capital facilities because clients couldn’t be invoiced timeously. The company also had to delay the publication of its financial results.

More recently, in what could be described as a life-and-death matter, the communication system of the National Health Laboratory Service was hacked, a breach that severely affected patient care as doctors’ access to test results was delayed. For  example, in many cases chemotherapy couldn’t be administered due to missing biopsy results...

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