The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission’s computer system on Wednesday faced attack from hackers based in France.
INEC revealed this on Thursday at the 2022 National Conference of the National Association of Judiciary Correspondents (NAJUC) in Abuja with the theme, ‘2023 General Elections; Judiciary and Sustainability of Nigeria’s Democracy.”
The account was related by the Commission’s deputy director of ICT, Dr Lawrence Bayode, who represented its Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu.
Bayode explained that the dastardly act to hack into the electoral body’s system was fruitless saying INEC’s is well-grounded.
“We were looking at the system yesterday and we were seeing that people were trying to come into the system from France but we also are putting some things in place.
“You can’t build a house and you will not put a door, window or burglary; we have done our best to ensure that our system is secured,” Bayode said.
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