EPTC MANAGER SUSPENDED AMID SOCIAL MEDIA HACKING PROBE

MBABANE –Eswatini Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (EPTC) has suspended one of its senior managers pending an investigation after the company’s social media pages were allegedly hacked.

It is reported that the corporation served the manager with the letter of suspension on Tuesday afternoon, citing the probe into the hacking of the social media accounts as the reason for her suspension. It was gathered that the social media pages of the company were allegedly hacked when it (company) was in the process of including more administrators onto its pages, which included  a newly-recruited manager in the company. The extent to which the incident affected the company, if at all, could not be verified. It was gathered that the process to add another administrator to the pages was conducted by the Information and Technology (IT) Department. It is reported that the suspension of the manager came as a surprise to some employees.

Questions

When the suspended manager was contacted regarding the matter, she referred questions to the head of department. In fact, when a phone call was made to her, as this reporter was introducing herself, the manager stated that she was not at work and any questions should be directed to Corporate Affairs Manager Bongani Mtshali and dropped the call. The company Managing Director (MD) Themba Khumalo was also reached for comment and he expressed bewilderment on how such information had reached the media. He however, said he was not the right person to comment on the matter and also referred questions in relation to the suspension, among others to Mtshali as well. Mtshaligave a brief response and said, “Our view is that matters between an employer and employee are internal and confidential and not suited for public discourse,” he said.

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