Public participation platform DearSA was the target of a cyber attack on Saturday when 20,000 submissions on a mandatory vaccination campaign were filled in by bots.
DearSA director Rob Hutchinson says the incident was not a hack but rather a single person injecting 20,000 entries to the campaign to try to influence the outcome. Stock photo.Public participation platform DearSA was the target of a cyber attack on Saturday when 20,000 submissions on aThe organisation said a specific IP address targeted the campaign, which attracted more than 180,000 submissions.
According to the organisation, interim results show the vast majority of participants object to mandatory vaccinations and passbooks. A screengrab from the Dear South Africa server which shows a tranche of 'participants' were bots instructed to answer the survey positively.Rob Hutchinson said it was important for the public to know this event was not a hack but rather a single person injecting 20,000 entries to the campaign to try to influence the outcome.] which added 20,000 'participants' all with the same IP address.
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