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How Kahawa West man allegedly hacked Jambopay portal, stole Sh49 million

A display of Jambopay's online retail platform shown by Danson Muchemi, CEO Jambopay during the interview with the Standard at his office in Nairobi. 2nd October,2020 [File, Standard]

A man accused of hacking into the Jambopay client portal and siphoning Sh49 million was yesterday arraigned before a Nairobi court.

Joseph Momanyi appeared before Milimani Magistrate Ben Mark Ekhumbi, where it was alleged that he breached the Jambopay system and began funnelling the stolen funds to various Safaricom M-Pesa accounts, till numbers, and bank accounts.

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