Linet Amuli reports:
Kenya’s digital health sector is facing a major cybersecurity crisis after hackers claimed to have stolen a massive trove of personal and medical data from M-TIBA, a Safaricom-backed mobile health platform. The alleged breach, said to involve over 2.15 terabytes of information, could expose the records of up to 4.8 million users, making it one of the largest data leaks in Kenya’s history.
A threat actor known as “Kazu” announced the breach on dark web forums, advertising the stolen database and sharing a 2GB sample file as proof. The sample reportedly contains the details of more than 114,000 users, including both account holders and their beneficiaries. The leaked information allegedly includes full names, national ID numbers, phone contacts, dates of birth, medical diagnoses, and billing records, along with data from about 700 health facilities.
Read more at Dawan Africa. DataBreaches has not attempted to verify the data because the government is already aware of the claims and is presumably investigating.