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Man charged with unlawful access to Safaricom systems

Patrick Gachie Gatuma denied the charges before Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi.

An engineer has been charged with unauthorised access to protected systems. Patrick Gachie Gatuma denied the charges before Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi.

He is accused that on April 24 and 30, unlawfully and with intent to defraud, he accessed the Safaricom App using a laptop and mobile phone and surged the Safaricom systems with 24,258,730 queries, which was not normal based on the historical data.

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