SCARE: Is your MONEY safe in M-PESA, It had been HACKED! NOOO

  Safaricom’s MPesa services had been down since yesterday 10.oo am morning.

The integrated communication service provider announced on twitter; @SafaricomLtd We are experiencing a technical fault affecting M-PESA Service. Our technical team is working on quick resolution. Inconvenience regretted.

They later on posted a press release explaining the situation at hand, “Leading Integrated Communications service provider Safaricom regrets to inform its customers of an outage on the M-PESA service since 10.00 am this morning.

As a result of this, M-PESA customers are not able to access M-PESA services including sending money, depositing and withdrawals, ATM withdrawals, buying airtime, bank to M-PESA, pay bill and buy goods as well as web transactions.

Expressing regret over this outage, Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore said, “Our technical team is working around the clock to ensure that the service is operational within the shortest time possible. We would also like to assure all our M -PESA customers that their money is safe.”

For any inquiries or clarifications, customers and agents have been advised to call M-PESA customer support on 234 or email M-PESA@safaricom.co.ke

Several clowns on social media took the opportunity to scare unknowing Kenyans to believe that Safaricom had been hacked and they were set to lose their money. Panic was reflected by the comments many posted. Have a look:

Rose Maina gosh aki op its not tru...cz am tryin to buy credo n inakataa...

Adonijah Otieno My 0.00 balance

Shanti Hum Sai Gai.! Bob yangu ime go..!itx true..!

Sherrielle Winn Cherriey haha..125 bob yangu

Alies Mbugua Welkam 2 airtel my ppl itz nw the beta optn

Kigondu Peter Gez wat, i have been tryn to withdraw since morning inakataa then sends thz mesaage.....

Gracey Gee M khai...yangu imekataa ata kubuy airtym!

Sherry Sallyve wooot!!!

Winny E Knight true,i had 685 kwa mpesa,nkawasha phone leo morning ilikua 68500 nisha withdraw but sa naogopa kuhandwa solo nishare na nani???

For now, Mpesa is back.

The group’s CEO Bob Collymore posted on twitter  ‏@bobcollymore MPESA is now back up following an internet connection problem with the hosted platform. Pls accept our apologies for the inconvenience.