South Africa: We Discovered Massive Fraud in Sassa’s Grant System

South Africa: We Discovered Massive Fraud in Sassa's Grant System

SASSA needs to disclose how this happened and the scale of the problem

We are two first-year computer science students at Stellenbosch University. We have been looking for vulnerabilities in government as well as private-sector systems. We do this completely legally, by using publicly available internet resources, such as the backends of various government portals.

We inform all relevant institutions of any vulnerabilities we find, and in most cases give them sufficient time to address the issues before we disclose them publicly. We never exploit the vulnerabilities for our own benefit.But sometimes a system bug is so bad that it […]

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