{"id":103305,"date":"2015-03-28T11:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T11:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=103305"},"modified":"2015-03-28T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T12:06:41","slug":"nigeria-elections-electoral-commission-site-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=103305","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Elections: Electoral Commission site hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official website of the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been hacked.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">A visit to the site&#8217;s homepage\u00a0shows a picture of the Nigerian flag with a thumbprint in the middle\u00a0and several messages underneath including , &#8220;<span style=\"font-family: Iceland;\">Sorry &#8216;xD Your Site has been STAMPED by TeaM Nigerian Cyber Army&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Iceland;\">FEEL SOME SHAME ADMIN!!<\/span>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/niga-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103330\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/niga-11.jpg\" alt=\"niga 1\" width=\"1350\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/niga-11.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/niga-11-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/niga-11-1024x466.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another message from the hackers,\u00a0who refer to themselves as Team Nigerian Cyber Army, indicated that they had access to other &#8220;top ranking Nigerian government servers&#8221; but had only targeted the Electoral Commission&#8217;s website today.<\/p>\n<p>They also warned INEC against any attempts to rig the elections \u00a0as they were being &#8220;watched day and night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/naija-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103328\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/naija-21.jpg\" alt=\"naija 2\" width=\"1345\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/naija-21.jpg 1345w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/naija-21-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/naija-21-1024x468.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1345px) 100vw, 1345px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>INEC acknowledged the attack on its website and stated in a tweet that the matter was being investigated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>We are aware of the recent hack of our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/inecnigeria\">@inecnigeria<\/a> website, we are currently investigating this incident <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NigeriaDecides?src=hash\">#NigeriaDecides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 INEC Alert (@INECAlert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/INECAlert\/status\/581771080479670272\">March 28, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nigerians are currently voting in poll stations all over the country which were delayed by the<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/28\/nigeria-polls-open-election-materials-delay\/#sthash.1xGRLIU1.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong> late arrival of electoral materials<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>at some polling stations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The elections are being contested by fourteen candidates, however, there it is widely accepted that the contest\u00a0is essentially between\u00a0President Goodluck Jonathan or \u00a0former army chief General Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/naija-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103332\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/naija-31.jpg\" alt=\"naija 3\" width=\"1350\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/naija-31.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/naija-31-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/naija-31-1024x408.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Analysts say that these elections will be the closest since Nigeria returned to democratic rule.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103322\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/81968517_lagos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103322 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/81968517_lagos.jpg\" alt=\"_81968517_lagos\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/81968517_lagos.jpg 512w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/81968517_lagos-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official website of the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been hacked. A visit to the site&#8217;s homepage\u00a0shows a picture of the Nigerian flag with a thumbprint in the middle\u00a0and several messages underneath including , &#8220;Sorry &#8216;xD Your Site has been STAMPED by TeaM Nigerian Cyber Army&#8230;FEEL SOME SHAME ADMIN!!.&#8221; Another message from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":103314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,14],"class_list":["post-103305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}