FIJ's recent investigation uncovered a startling breach at the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), revealing how personal data of registered Nigerians fell into the hands of fraudulent verification agents.
Contrary to the NIMC Act 2007, XpressVerify.com, a private website, gained...
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In Nigeria, people are increasingly relying on digital transactions and online activities. However, this reliance has also brought the threat of personal data breaches. Email attacks, commonly known as "phishing", where attackers impersonate banks and...
Billions of usernames and passwords have been exposed online due to an oversight by the digital risk protection company DarkBeam - this has raised concerns about the safety of personal data online. The database containing over 3.8 billion user records was left unprotected and was first...
Yahoo’s UK arm has been fined £250,000 ($335,000) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over a data breach affecting more than 500 million users which took place in 2014. The incident was reported two years later.
The firm said "state-sponsored" hackers had stolen personal …...
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