Johannesburg - Information on crime supplied by whistle-blowers was downloaded when the official SA Police Service website was hacked into. The website, like other government entities, is hosted by the State Information Technology Agency (Sita). Sita executive for ICT services, Mmakgosi Mosupi, declined to give figures on the actual number of people whose details were downloaded from the website. Media reports stated that nearly 16 000 whistle-blowers had their personal details downloaded and published online after the cyber-attack. The SA Police Service assured South Africans that information on crime cases was not accessed. Posting anonymously on social media, the hacker "DomainerAnon" raised questions regarding the lack of arrests for the August 2012 shooting of 34 protesting mineworkers at Marikana mine in Rustenburg.

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