A cyber security website is reporting that the hacking collective Anonymous has carried out a cyber-attack on Kenya’s foreign ministry servers and stolen a large cache of data.
The attack was conducted under the banner of OpAfrica, an operation launched last year against child abuse, child labour and corruption in the African countries, HackRead reports.
The Kenyan government has not confirmed whether there has been a data breach.
HackRead says some of the 1TB of data hacked has been leaked on the “dark web”, a collection of websites that are hidden and highly encrypted, hiding their owners and users.
Anonymous recently breached websites belonging to a Kenyan oil refinery as well as the websites of other state-owned firms.
Often, server breaches in sub-Saharan Africa involve defacing websites, rather than stealing data but as the people and governments on the continent go increasingly digital there is now more material available to these hackers.
Anonymous works somewhat like a franchise. There are hackers in different countries who use the name too, so it is difficult to tell if the attacks come from abroad or are local.
They claim to be activists carrying out attacks in protest against corruption and injustice
