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Za: Cyber extortionist sentenced to eight years in jail

Posted on June 9, 2025 by Dissent

Admire Moyo reports on an insider wrongdoing case in South Africa:

In a landmark case, a man was last week sentenced to eight years in jail for contravening South Africa’s Cyber Crimes Act.

Lucky Majangandile Erasmus (36), a former employee of Ecentric Payment Systems, was sentenced by the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court after entering into a plea agreement with the State to a combined eight years imprisonment for cyber fraud, theft of data and attempted cyber extortion.

The total sentence was eight years imprisonment, with three years suspended for five years.

[…]

The charges arose from events in late 2023, when Erasmus and his co-accused, Felix Unathi Pupu (43), also a former Ecentric employee, illegally installed software on the company’s IT systems, enabling remote access.

Following the breach, an unknown party contacted Ecentric’s CEO, claiming that critical elements of the company’s IT infrastructure had been compromised and threatening to release sensitive company data unless a ransom was paid.

Read more about the case at iTWeb.

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