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Pretoria - The Competition Commission has appointed a legal expert specialising in media law to advise it on the Banking Council's uncensored report on, inter alia, banking charges that are still in the public domain.
The full uncensored report with confidential information obtained in the banking investigation is still available for scrutiny at Wikileaks.com.
Directions on how to decipher the censored parts of the report was first published on MyBroadband.com.
The website removed the directions at the request of the commission, but the uncensored report nonetheless turned up on Wikileaks.
The Banking Council's report, electronically censored, was originally published on the commission's website.
The commission had an agreement with that country's major retail banks that confidential information would be "scratched out". The hackers however made the highly technical instructions of how to decipher the invisible portions available on MyBroadband
Nandi Mokoena, the commission's strategy manager, has confirmed that the commission has lodged a criminal charge against the hackers with the police, in terms of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act.
Should they be tracked down and found guilty they could face up to two years in prison.
Mokoena says in the course of their investigations the police will probably have discussions with MyBroadband on the original source of the directions.
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