{"id":2724,"date":"2014-10-29T06:29:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T06:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2014-10-29T06:29:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T06:29:28","slug":"south-sudan-accuses-chinese-telecom-giant-huawei-of-hacking-forgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2724","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan Accuses Chinese Telecom Giant, Huawei of Hacking, Forgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Huawei\"<\/a>Chinese telecom giant, Huawei is currently embroiled in a major hacking and forgery scandal in South Sudan, a situation that may further affect how governments in Africa relates with the company.<\/p>\n

In a letter dated October 10, 2014 and addressed to South Sudan Minister of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Barnaba Marial Benjamin,\u00a0 the country Minister of Information and Broadcasting,\u00a0 Michael Makuei Lueth accused\u00a0 Huawei of hacking into government\u00a0 e-mails and forging government documents.
\nThe Information Minister wrote:
\nRecently we have discovered a serious case that one of Chinese Private Company, Huawei has committed. Huawei attempted to send forged document to Hon Li Ruogu, the President of the Export- Import Bank of China on my behalf.
\nWe are shocked\u00a0 by this Chinese private company unbecoming behavior, which tantamount to forgery. Huawei wanted to create confusion between our government\u00a0 and the Chinese
\nI suspect that Huawei has been hacking many Government officials e-mail and falsifying and forging documents on behalf of the senior government officials, Lueth further alleged.
\nThe minister alleged that on 3 October, Huawei Sullivan Chen sent an email to Acting Director General of Information, Paul Jacob Kumbo in hopes of getting a letter printed on official ministry letter-head, signed, and stamped so he could send it to China.
\nThe purpose of the letter was the postponement of the funding of the Digital Migration TV project, Lueth\u00a0 alleged.
\nA close rival of Huwaei is believed to have been given the nod to execute the TV Digital Migration project.
\nLueth said he summoned Huawei Acting Managing Director and senior staff to explain the matter but none of them showed up.
\nMeanwhile, in reaction to the Information Ministers letter, the South Sudan government has launched an investigation into the allegations.
\nLueth had recommended that, a serious action should be launched against Huawei in order to\u00a0 ascertain\u00a0 these dirty\u00a0 and malicious acts of the company.
\nb, Mr . Sullivan\u00a0 Chen should be investigated and if found guilty ; deported from South Sudan back to China.
\nc. Chinese embassy to be informed about the criminal and harmful deeds of Huawei against the Republic of South Sudan and its people.
\nIn addition, the Acting Director General of the\u00a0\u00a0 Ministry of\u00a0 Information and Broadcasting, Paul Jacob Kumbo also alleged that the account of the\u00a0 Minister was hacked but that the attempted forgery emanated\u00a0 from a business rivalry between two Chinese firms
\nThe Minister did not write any letter. This is just forgery and an extension of the fight between\u00a0 the two companies. We are told one of the junior staff of Huwaei company is suspected in this. I met the company including its Managing Director , who denied any knowledge of the letter, Kumbo added.
\nLast year a former United States Central Intelligence Agency boss, Mr. Micheal Hayden accused the company of spying on US.
\nIts reputation was also called to question in a $1m bribery scandal involving the chairman of Belgian telecom operator, Belgacom, Mr Micheal Moss.
\nHuawei with its headquarters in Shenzen Guadong, China\u00a0 is one of the major players in Nigeria telecoms industry. The company has recently expanded its operations in Nigeria to include\u00a0 security solutions and handsets products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese telecom giant, Huawei is currently embroiled in a major hacking and forgery scandal in South Sudan, a situation that may further affect how governments in Africa relates with the company. In a letter dated October 10, 2014 and addressed to South Sudan Minister of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Barnaba Marial Benjamin,\u00a0 the country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[115,116],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-huawei","tag-sudan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Huawei.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-HW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}