2023 Elections: Nigeria’s Electoral Body, INEC's Website Restored (Updated)

• The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has restored its website which was down for some hours on Sunday, February 5
• The website until it was restored did not display its content and only showed, "Error establishing a database connection"
• Professor Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, had earlier said there had been attempts by foreign hackers to hack into the commission’s computer system

The official website of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), www.inecnigeria.org, was down and unable to display its contents for hours on Sunday evening, February 5.

The website as of 5.30pm displays:

"Error establishing a database connection."

However, the latest checks by Legit.ng showed that the website has been restored and is now up and running.

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The electoral body is yet to respond to Legit.ng's email enquiry regarding the development.

Note: This report has been updated to indicate that the INEC website which was down for some hours on Sunday has now been restored.

2023 general elections: Foreign hackers attack INEC's database

Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that Professor Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, said there have been attempts by foreign hackers to hack into the commission’s computer system ahead of the 2023 general elections.

The INEC chief made this known on Thursday, January 26, during the 2022 National Conference of the National Association of Judiciary Correspondents (NAJUC) in Abuja.

Professor Yakubu was represented by the deputy director of ICT, Dr Lawrence Bayode. He said the attacks were from different parts of the world and not just Nigeria. Nevertheless, Bayode said INEC is putting every measure in place to ensure its system is secure.

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2023 elections: INEC result viewing portal being attacked

In a related development, INEC recently said its result viewing (IReV) portal has experienced attacks from multiple hackers across the world.

Legit.ng regional correspondence reported that the INEC chairman, Professor Yakubu, said this while giving his keynote address at a stakeholders’ conference on election result management in Abuja on Friday, September 9, 2022.

The conference, which was organized by a civil society organization (CSO), Yiaga Africa, was to launch the election result analysis dashboard (ERAD) report agenda.

Source: Legit.ng