Airtel Zambia Hacked By Hackers
A Kabwe Magistrate’s Court has fined a 28-year-old man K5,000 or eight months simple imprisonment for hacking into Airtel Zambia network to reroute international calls. Chanda Chiti of Highridge Township in Kabwe pleaded guilty to one count of securing access to an electronic communication network contrary to section 77 (2) (d) of the Information and Communication Technologies Act. Facts before Magistrate PumuloMubita yesterday were that Chitiused an electronic gadget known as simbox to intercept international calls on Airtel network and bill them at the local rate. The court heard that his action between January and March last year resultmagistrateed in the loss of more than US $24,000 by the mobile phone company. Airtel Zambia had reported to the police on April 8, 2016 that it had lost more than US $24,000 in phone call re-routing between January and March 2016. The ideal situation is that Airtel bills the other mobile service provider making an international call for using its netw...