Sheema Municipality Member of Parliament Dicksons Kateshumbwa has said those who hacked into his twitter account demanded for £70,000 (Shs315m) from him or else they would damage my reputation.
According to Kateshumbwa, when he refused, the hackers went ahead to create what he called countless fabricated screenshots to damage his and other people’ reputations.
“They asked me for £70,000 or else they would damage my reputation which I refused to do and they went one and made countless fabricated screenshots which many of you believed,” he said in a tweet on Sunday, 19 March 2023, after reporting that he has recovered his account.
“My IT team has been able to recover my acct these malicious hackers wanted to character assassinate me so they used a fake tweet generator to fake conversations in order to damage me and other people’ reputations,” he added.
On Saturday, the hacker who identified himself as “Hogo” shared screenshots of alleged conversations between Hon. Kateshumbwa and Canary Mugume, Esther Birungi, Hon. Diana Mutasindwa, and Tracy Ninsiima.
One of the screenshots was of Kasumba begging for money from the Sheema MP, something that left several Ugandans on Twitter in shock before the same account then threatened to spill more secrets.
On Sunday, Kateshumbwa apologised to those people exposed by the hacker.
“I apologise to Samson Kasumba, Esther Birungi, Canary Mugume, Hon. Mutasingwa, Ninsiima Tracy for any damage done to their reputation,” he tweeted.
This comes two months after the Twitter account of Kawempe North legislator Kazibwe Bashir Mbazira was allegedly hacked, revealing tweets where he was accusing his party president of being a mole.
In a series of hard hitting threads, Kazibwe Bashir’s account laid out a case accusing National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine of being nothing but a government project, along with several prominent party members.
The twitter handle alleged that his fellow legislators Muhammad Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana landed in trouble following a botched deal between them and the ruling National Resistance Movement of President Museveni.
