{"id":344163,"date":"2017-08-11T18:08:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T18:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=344163"},"modified":"2017-08-11T18:08:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T18:08:51","slug":"our-website-hasnt-been-hacked-waec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=344163","title":{"rendered":"Our website hasn&#8217;t been hacked &#8211; WAEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has dispelled rumours that its website has been hacked.<\/p>\n<p>Social media reports suggest that the council&#8217;s website has been taken over by hackers but a letter signed by the head of Public Affairs at WAEC, Agnes Teye-Cudjoe urged the public to disregard such claim describing it as &#8220;false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;krdYf0hzS1YSMHn6m22hvxMT0u5daem3&#8243;]&#8221;The Council wishes to alert members of the public to a false news article circulating on social media purportedly issued by WAEC about the hacking of the WAEC website. The public is urged to disregard the contents of the said article,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Some four persons had earlier been busted in Nigeria for allegedly hacking the WAEC website in that country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WAEC withholds results of 185 schools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WAEC in Ghana released the 2017 results of the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) some three weeks ago which it said was an improvement of the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The Council however withheld the result of about 185 schools it believed engaged in malpractices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Rita Mensah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has dispelled rumours that its website has been hacked. Social media reports suggest that the council&#8217;s website has been taken over by hackers but a letter signed by the head of Public Affairs at WAEC, Agnes Teye-Cudjoe urged the public to disregard such claim describing it as &#8220;false.&#8221; [contextly_sidebar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[2,11],"tags":[3,3472,10115],"class_list":["post-344163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-waec","tag-waec-website-not-hacked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344163","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=344163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}