Adefioye Iyunade
Anonymous, a group of international ‘hacktivist’ backing #ENDSARS protesters has claimed responsibility for bringing down the websites of the Lagos State Government, Kaduna State Government, Ministry of Justice, INEC, NNPC, EFCC and NCDC.
“The collective of #Anonymous is working on a database leak for the #OpNigeria. We are not 100% sure this will be released, but let’s hope so. We are Anonymous, ” Anonymous is justice, and justice cannot be silenced, it tweeted on Saturday morning.
It tweeted: “Official website of @officialEFCC has been taken down in support of #EndSARSProtest. CHECK HOST: https://check-host.net/check-report/df89d3bk838 TARGET: https://efccnigeria.org/efcc/ You should have expected us!”
“NCDC website has been taken #Offline. #TangoDown, Check Host = https://check-host.net/check-report/df8bcefk805 Site: https://ncdc.gov.ng”
“Official website of @inecnigeria has been taken #Offline. CHECK HOST: https://check-host.net/check-report/df8a978k278. #TangoDown! You should have expected us.
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The group had vowed to attack federal government agencies’ websites in solidarity with the EndSARS protesters.
Many Nigerians have however reacted to the cyber-attack launched by Anonymous.
Nigerians took to social media especially twitter to express their thoughts with the development.
@Joshua_Ubeku said: “With the way Anonymous is going with this hacking thing, we might be seeing #EndSARS from Buhari’s account soon”
@Mauyon_ said, “Anonymous hack on Nigeria is so easy…”
@_Sumanguru said: “Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is running their website on Microsoft IIS Web server? Shame Thinking face I wonder what other faulty infrastructure/code they are running? Cheapskate bank, they deserve to be hacked by Anonymous”.
@Jonath_an said: “They never expected such attack will ever befall them LoL. But it has happened.”
@GoogleEmperor said, “Don’t just hack. Show us something to be angry about.”
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