A South African court has given a man an eight year prison sentence after finding him guilty of holding his former employer to ransom, after breaching its security.
36-year-old Lucky Majangandile Erasmus was convicted of 17 charges related to the attempted extortion of payment service provider Ecentric Payment Systems, in what has been described as a landmark case.
In a press release South African police described how Erasmus and a company insider installed software without authorisation on Ec
