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So, Episode 80 of the African Tech Round-up, aka the episode that nearly never happened, is finally out. \n\nIn an interview Andile Masuku just taped for the upcoming season of the African Tech Conversations series, Co-founder and Chief Credit Officer of M-KOPA Solar, Chad Larson, shared words he lives by that epitomise why I\u2019m glad the team didn\u2019t give up on publishing the podcast this week\u2014 despite the ridiculousness that made it nearly impossible to do so. \u201cDone is always better than perfect,\u201d he said. So, here it is.\n\nThere\u2019s no doubt that this has so far been a bumper year for the world\u2019s hacking community. Last week, one of Kenya\u2019s biggest banks, the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), spent a fair amount of energy trying to convince its customers that their personal data remains uncompromised-- this, following claims by a certain programmer who goes by @IrakChris on Twitter claiming to have accessed KCB's client data through vulnerabilities found in the bank's mobile app.\n\nMeanwhile, Twitter, Spotify, Amazon, Reddit, Yelp, Netflix, and The New York Times suffered easily one of the world's biggest coordinated distributed denial of service (aka DDoS) attacks last Friday which led to the sites either slowing to a snail's pace or being knocked out altogether.\n\nFor all the details on these stories and more, tuck into this week's show, and be sure to tell us what you make of the week's headlines on Twitter @africanroundup, or via email using hello@africantechroundup.com.\n\nMusic Credits:\nMusic by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\nMusic licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0\n\nPodcast photo credit: jjackowski via VisualHunt.com / CC BY-NC-SA