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Interior CS Kithure Kindiki says e-Citizen was hit with massive DDoS attack

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By Winfrey Owino | Jul 27, 2023

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**Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki.** [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

Interior Cabinet Secretary Professor Kithure Kindiki says the e-Citizen mobile application was intentionally flooded with traffic, making it unavailable to genuine users.

In a statement released on Thursday evening minutes after his ICT counterpart Eliud Owalo clarified the extent of the alleged cyber-attack, CS Kindiki maintained that no data was breached and that e-Citizen services have resumed following a downtime since Sunday, July 23, 2023.

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