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Safaricom accused of hacking a client's phone, using up his over 8k airtime in seconds

Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa A Twitter user by the name Joseph Muthengi (@Joselonzo) Saturday morning narrated how he lost his Sh8960 airtime and 8GB data bundles without using them. "Over night, I lost 8,950 airtime, lost almost 8GB data yesterday, my zidisha bundle vanished without calls! I called your Cs,you hanged

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Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa A Twitter user by the name Joseph Muthengi (@Joselonzo) Saturday morning narrated how he lost his Sh8960 airtime and 8GB data bundles without using them. "Over night, I lost 8,950 airtime, lost almost 8GB data yesterday, my zidisha bundle vanished without calls! I called your Cs,you hanged up on me! I tweeted, I was given a false promise.Who’s using my line?!", he tweeted tagging Safaricom, their CEO, Consumer Federation of Kenya and Communications Authority He believes that someone hacked his line and used up his airtime and data bundles. "I just want to know who has access to my Safaricom line,who’s “making calls” when I am asleep, who’s using my data when I have WiFi at home and at work and cellular data is...

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