A number of sites in East Africa were hacked starting last week by multiple hackers, in what appears to be an uncordinated hacking spree. The attacks come just after an overnight hack involving 103 Government of Kenya websites by an Indonesian hacker. This include the website of MTN, the largest mobile operator in Rwanda and a major player across the continent. The attack appears to have been through SQL injection, where vulnerabilities in the code of a page enable an attacker to insert and execute their own code on the underlying database, thus gaining illegal entry into it.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130993/east-african-firms-caught-up-in-hacking-spree.html