Irish Hacker Hacks Nigeria Govt Website, Gives FG 72 Hours To Renounce Anti-Gay Bil
An hacker threathens to expose nigerian government's corruption and he challenges the presidency to reverse the recent pass anti-gay bill, he expressed dissatisfaction on how Nigeria handles the homosexuality matter, an Irish hacker who goes by the monicker Paddyhack.
Paddy Claimed to have conducted a cyber attack on the official government of Nigeria's website. The 'assault' is apparently aimed at making President Jonathan to veto the bill according to which all homosexuals in Nigeria are subject to imprisonment. The website was attacked on Thursday night; though things were later restored, it remains unknown if it were the officials that took matters in their hands, or the attackers stepped back.
He bragged and threatened '' No need to start destroying evidence, I already have it," the Irish hacker, claiming to belong to the global Anonymous group, declared.
He bragged and threatened '' No need to start destroying evidence, I already have it," the Irish hacker, claiming to belong to the global Anonymous group, declared.
His tweet read thus;
Nigeria.gov.ng, , is Nigeria government's official homepage and the website that was hacked, equivalent to that of U.S' and UK's governments, and managed by the Information ministry of Nigeria. It is worth noting that this year, the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) department of the Information Ministry got N63.5 million from the national treasury.
Of this total, the website in question received N10 million, a curious fact: the Thursday night attack was announced by the Irish hacker in advance on his Twitter account: 'Paddyhack' launched #opNigeria on July 1."Just over two hours to launch of #OpNigeria," he tweeted in his Twitter diary.
However, web administrators of the Nigeria.gov.ng webpage were unable to prevent the cyber attack.
According to Joseph Mutuah, the spokesman of the Ministry, could not provide the reasons behind the government's inability to provide adequate security for the web infrastructure.
"They are hackers," he said, drawing analogy between cyber criminals and armed robbers who break into someone's property.
Hence, they are hackers so there's no sort of security that can work or we can afford (lol, with 10million Naira) ?????
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