MTN Uganda raided by security personnel who disconnect several servers
Kampala — MTN Uganda said security personnel had raided its data and disconnected four of its servers. The firm said in a July 3 letter to the state-run telecommunications regulator that it had "reported to police a case of illegal intrusion into the data centre and the disconnection of the four information servers". The regulator, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC)’s top official confirmed receipt of the letter to Reuters. "Yes, yes I have seen on social media that letter. I don’t know who leaked it but I received it, yes. They were complaining that they were raided," said Godfrey Mutabazi. MTN Uganda is the country’s largest telecommunications firm with a subscriber base of more than 9-million. In the letter, the company said men who said they were from Uganda Internal Security Organisation (ISO), a security agency in charge of domestic intelligence, had, on July 2, also kidnapped an employee of its contractor, Huawei Technologies. The security personnel then forced the employ...
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