What changed
Safaricom detected approximately 1.25 billion intrusion attempts and investigated more than 130,000 security events during its 2026 financial year. The figures were presented when the company launched its 2026 Sustainable Business Report in Nairobi on October 27, 2026.
Why it matters
That works out to roughly 3.4 million attempts a day, or nearly 40 every second. These were detected attempts, not confirmed successful attacks, and their origin, severity and success rate are unknown. Still, the scale shows the constant pressure on companies running essential digital services.
Tanzania’s growing reliance on mobile money, banking apps, online government services and other digital platforms makes that warning hard to ignore. A disruption to a mobile-money platform could leave merchants struggling to receive payments, interrupt transport transactions and delay emergency transfers.
The key shift is organisational. Safaricom chief executive Peter Ndegwa framed digital trust as a leadership, customer and sustainability issue, rather than a problem for IT departments alone. That is the right reading: a cyber incident can affect whether an organisation operates, keeps customers’ confidence and protects its finances.
Safaricom’s numbers do not show how many attacks Tanzanian providers face. But they do make one point plainly. For Tanzanian telecoms companies, banks and digital-service providers, cybersecurity is no longer occasional maintenance. It is part of keeping the economy open.
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