I can confirm there were some issues with MPESA during the weekend and I happen to be one of the victim though not loosing money, transaction delay and failing to send things like balance of which safcom kept sending me text messages until whole thing was sorted this morning... and another text apologising and asking me to confirm whether my account is ok which is still fine....


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, agents have access to control transactions thru web server. One of the ways you can reverse a transaction..

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 3, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:

I am sure that there are some uber evil black hats here in Kenya, but I will believe it when some Kenyan dude or dudette gets extradited to the US for hacking NSA, FBI or the DOD.

I wonder of what benefit hacking MPESA would have, apart from the street cred.

Why would they have a webserver? Kwani can one transact mpesa via HTTP?

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Gichuki John Chuksjonia <chuksjonia@gmail.com> wrote:
The mpesa webserver still seems okey to me, though i have never tested it.

On 8/3/09, Joram Mwinamo <joram.mwinamo@gmail.com> wrote:
> However , another rumour has it that Kenyan financial systems have
> questionable security and those with programs developed locally have scripts
> to syphon unnoticable amounts of money from peoples accounts. i wont mention
> names...again,just rumours....
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:46 PM, pithon kamau <pitkag@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Rumours Rumours Rumours
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Not true,, the shops were operational over whole weekend.. No complaints
>>> reported.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Aug 3, 2009, at 11:34 AM, richard muteru <richardmuteru@gmail.com>
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>>>
>>>  Hi skunks,
>>>>
>>>> Rumors are there that the MPESA system has been hacked...its been down
>>>> the whole weekend.
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