The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) website has been hacked.
The bureau confirmed the security breach on Wednesday evening.
“This is to inform the public that the NBS Website has been hacked and we are working to recover it. Please disregard any message or report posted until the website is fully restored,” NBS stated on its X account.
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This is to inform the public that the NBS Website has been hacked and we are working to recover it. Please disregard any message or report posted until the website is fully restored.Thank you.— NBS Nigeria (@NBS_Nigeria) December 18, 2024
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The NBS website hack is the latest episode of security breaches that have plagued Nigerian ministries and agencies in 2024.
In March, FIJ reported how XpressVerify.com, a private website, had unrestricted access to the National Identification Numbers (NINs) and personal details of every registered Nigerian from the NIN database.
In April, FIJ noticed that the Nigeria Police Force’s web portal dedicated to reporting cybercrime was unsafe and violated the guidelines stipulated by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA for government websites.
FIJ also reported that the security certificate of the State House’s website (www.statehouse.gov.ng) had expired for over two weeks in April, yet the government failed to renew it.
In September, FIJ reported how the secure sockets layer of the official website of the IPPIS Secretariat, a department in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) which oversees the management of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), had expired and got no renewal for 461 days.
The ‘IPPIS Payroll Validation‘ section on the official website of the OAGF had been hijacked by an unknown hacker, too, FIJ confirmed in September.
FIJ has reported more cases of weak or non-existent security measures on government websites and databases, putting citizens at risk of data theft and subsequent consequences.
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