City of Joburg hopes to be online by the end of weekend

 This after they came under attack from cyber attackers last week, leading to most of their online services being offline.

The city's Ntshatisi Modigoane says some services have been restored and customers are able to pay their bills.

"What we've manged to establish so far is that everything happened at the user level, it didn't affect our applications," says Modigoane, noting that they thus far it seems customer data was not compromised by the cyber-attack.

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The city has insisted that it did not receive a ransom demand from the hackers, as initially reported.

The African National Congress (ANC) in Johannesburg has said they believe that outdated software is to blame. Spokesperson Jolidee Matongo wants to the city to do an update as soon as possible.

"It seems as if the current software that is being used to secure the software is outdated, so we call upon the city to make sure the latest software is used to secure the network."