Despite evidence, CBN claims website not hacked by Anonymous
The Central Bank of Nigeria has falsely claimed that its website was not breached Friday night by Anonymous.
The hacker collective took down the website of the Nigerian government banker at 8:41 p.m. yesterday, according to an announcement on its Twitter handle, Peoples Gazette reported, after confirming that the CBN’s webpage had been loading intermittently.
It is yet to be ascertained whether or not sensitive data was pilfered from the CBN web infrastructure. The bank, nonetheless, insists that its website is adequately protected and secure.
But the Gazette confirmed through multiple sources, including site performance and host information, that the CBN website was breached by the hacktivists.
Anonymous has ramped up its coordinated cyberattacks against the Nigerian government, having earlier invaded the website of the Nigerian police, compromising private information of officials in the process.
Latest casualties of the notorious hack group include Nigeria’s anti-graft agency EFCC, electoral umpire INEC, national public health institute NCDC, and governments of Lagos and Kaduna states.
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