As the Federal elections continues, the official website of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was on Saturday, March 28, 2015 hacked by a team of Nigerian hackers, Nigerian Cyber Army.
First to announce the hack was the All Progressives Congress (APC), who made the information public via its official Twitter handle.
BREAKING: INEC website – http://t.co/gesDNO3qPW hacked…
— APC Nigeria (@APCNigeria) March 28, 2015
A statement by INEC said: “We are aware of the recent hack of our @inecnigeria website, we are currently investigating this incident #NigeriaDecides,”
The website has since been restored.