Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has faulted claims that its website was hacked by a
group of unidentified hackers.
Mr Wilson Uwujaren, Head, Media & Publicity of the agency in a
statement on Monday, October 18, confirmed that though there were
attempts to breach the agency’s website, it was not hacked as
claimed in some reports.
retwtr.com understands that a legend group of hackers popularly
known as Anonymous, had earlier claimed responsibility for
hacking the EFCC website.
The group on their microblogging site account also claimed to be
responsible for the hacking of the official website of the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN) among others and threatened to target
more.
However, EFCC while reacting to a report regarding a certain
Dominic Akpan who claims to have resigned from the employ of the
Commission to join the #EndSARS movement, described the claims as
false.
The commission urges the general public to disregard the reports
noting that its website is up an running fine.
The statement reads in part; “The attention of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has been drawn to a report
trending in the social media regarding a certain Dominic Akpan who
claims to have resigned from the employ of the Commission to join
the #EndSARS movement. He cited undisclosed “ugly experiences” he
had within the Commission for his action.”
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“The EFCC wishes to inform the public that Akpan is not a
staff of the Commission. He merely served as a National Youth
Service Corps (NYSC) member in the Port Harcourt zonal office of
the Commission from November 2019 to October 16, 2020 when he
completed his national service.”
“He therefore could not have resigned from the EFCC to join
the #End SARS Movement.”
“The EFCC, therefore, urges members of the public to
disregard the report, in addition to the one which also claims that
the Commission’s website had been hacked.”
“Though there were attempts, over the weekend, to compromise
the website by some cybercriminals the attacks were successfully
repelled. The EFCC website is up and running.”
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