The government of South Sudan is among African governments being targeted by cyber hackers against corruption.
The online hacktivist Anonymous is targeting African countries to protest against the increasing corruption in government sector.
The cyber-attacks are conducted under the banner of operation OpAfrica where targeted countries are Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda Uganda and Zimbabwe.
The Anonymous hackers in the past hacked the South African Government contractor and the U.S. Department of Agriculture websites.
“We are Anonymous and supporters of LulzSec and we will make sure the corrupt governments would listen to us or we will keep on embarrassing them,” said the anti-corruption group.
“It’s time to end their corruption and feed the poor.”
This time, they have hacked into the servers of Ugandan Ministry of Finance and an IT company under the Rwandan government.
The hackers have also leaked confidential data such as client information, sensitive internal email conversations, emails and passwords.
Corruption in South Sudan is among the worst in the world. The young nation was ranked fifth on Transparency International’s 2014 list of most corrupt nations, preceded only by Somalia, North Korea, Sudan, and Afghanistan.