Tag: Hacker
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Police arrest 2 who allegedly specialise in hacking bank customers’ accounts
The Zone 2 Command of the Nigeria Police has arrested two men, who allegedly specialise in hacking into bank customers’ accounts. The Zonal Public Relations Officer, SP Hauwa Idris-Adamu, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos.
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Lagos man remanded in prison for hacking Oniru’s Facebook account to defraud a Professor
Lagos-based man Agbolade Agbolahan has been remanded in prison for allegedly hacking Oniru of Ireland’s Facebook account and thereafter using it to defraud a professor of the sum of half a million naira. In his defense, Agbolahan pleaded not guilty to the charges leveled against him by the Police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos.
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Baba Dee exposes scammer who hacked Sound Sultan’s Instagram page
Baba Dee, Nigerian musician and actor has revealed the identity of the person who allegedly hacked the Instagram account of Sound Sultan, his late younger In an Instagram post on Saturday, Baba Dee said the suspect, identified as Victor Majekodunmi, is currently “cooling off in police custody.” “This is the face of the scammer that…
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Man hacks into server of Nigeria’s first generation bank, steals N1.87b
Salau Abdulmalik Femi has been arrested for allegedly infiltrating the Flex-Cube Universal Banking System of a first generation bank and scooping as much as N1.87 billion. According to the Police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, the suspect specializes in hacking into the server of banks and corporate agencies. Femi, who displayed exemplary mastery of the cyber…
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Photo: EFCC arrests Access Bank hacker
Chris Ihebuzo, who claimed to have hacked Access Bank and extracted more than 2,000 customer’s data has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). The anti-graft agency announced the arrest of the self-acclaimed hacker in an Instagram post. He is being held for cyberstalking. According to the anti-graft agency, Chris was arrested…
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Access Bank reassures stakeholder public after hacker claimed he stole its customers data
Access Bank Plc has assured customers and other stakeholder public at large that there are no threat to their account balances after Ihebuzo Chris, a Nigerian hacker, demonstrated that the walls built around bank’s network are vulnerable. In a tweet yesterday, Access Bank said that “criminals have posted pages purporting to contain customer account information.…
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NITDA warns against ‘panic message’ circulating on WhatsApp
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has identified a file being circulated on WhatsApp tagged ‘Argentina is Doing it’, as fake news and warned the general public to avoid opening the link. Mrs Hadiza Umar, Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations of the NITDA, who gave the warning in a statement on Saturday, warned…