THE Ogun State Government, on Wednesday, confirmed that its website was hacked.
The Secretary to the State Government, Tokunbo Talabi, said the government is “working to restore the website,” adding that “all critical data and applications are secured”.
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“The State ICT team is working round the clock to access and restore all the critical services,” he said in a statement, adding that improving on the cyber security architecture is sacrosanct.
News Point Nigeria had reported that a hacker had on Wednesday attacked the state government website: www.ogunstate.gov.ng.
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A check by our correspondent on Wednesday afternoon showed that the website, www.ogunstate.gov.ng, has been taken over by the hacker.
“Hacked by Aliester Crowley. Update your security. Greetings from Maldives,” the website homepage showed at about 1:15 pm.
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The hacker also posted confidential govt correspondences randomly on the site.
It was later learnt that the website was attacked by a group known as Aleister Crowley. The hackers who took over the site wrote: ‘ANONGHOST. Hacked by Aleister Crowley’ much later.
