The Bank of Uganda is the country’s central bank. In November 2024, there was a heist at the bank. Initial reports suggested a cyberattack by hackers, but subsequent investigations and reports suggested an inside job. In a statement on its website, the bank said there was “fraudulent activity that resulted in international payments being diverted… Read More »
In December 2023, a lady who runs a makeup business in Nairobi posted online about how her now-former employees had been stealing from her company. She said it was well-planned theft and the group had stolen millions of shillings in one year alone. The employees would tell clients that the official mobile money number was… Read More »
In November 2024, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that a man named Evan Bobzin was sentenced to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for theft and tax offences related to stolen money totalling about 2 million US dollars. It was stated that from July 2013… Read More »
In September 2024, an online lender in Kenya, Azura Credit Limited, was ordered to pay a man KShs. 250,000/- The man had complained to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) that Azura was harassing him as a guarantor for a loan that someone else took. For those not familiar with the practice (though… Read More »
In March 2024, the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, the country’s largest commercial bank, had a technical “glitch” that allowed customers to withdraw more money than they had in their accounts. The glitch lasted for several hours before the bank froze all transactions. News of the glitch spread rapidly on social media, particularly among university students,… Read More »
On 9th January 2024, Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi posted, on Facebook, a story that apparently someone, let’s call him ‘M,’ had sent to him. To summarise, M’s car had been broken into “right at the entrance gate” of Coptic Hospital in Nairobi. When M spoke to the G4S security guards at the Hospital, he said… Read More »
Updated on 26th January 2024 Last week my six-year-old son was introduced to cybersecurity principles and practices. Okay, it was not really his first interaction. What happened was that I came into the sitting room and found him crying. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “I have forgotten the password of my tablet,” he said. He had… Read More »