reported earlier that scores of Johannesburg residents using pre-paid electricity meters were unable to purchase electricity or even load that which they had already bought, due a cyber attack in which a virus had been planted in City Power's networks.
"City Power cyber security is currently investigating the cause of this attack," the utility's spokesperson Isaac Mangena said. "This also affected our response time to logged calls, as some of internal systems to dispatch and order material have been slowed by the impact."
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