"FG Foiled 108 Attempts to Hack FEC Virtual Meetings": Pantami Says, Shares More Stunning Revelations

"FG Foiled 108 Attempts to Hack FEC Virtual Meetings": Pantami Says, Shares More Stunning Revelations

  • The minister of communications has made a shocking revelation of how FEC meetings have experienced multiple hack attempts
  • Isa Pantami, who made this revelation while listing the achievements of his ministry, noted that most of the hackers were traced to Europe
  • He added that in the past 42 months FEC virtual meetings have recorded over 100 hack attempts

Isa Pantami, the minister of Communications and Digital Economy, has said that there were multiple attempts to hack the virtual meetings of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

He made this assertion on Thursday, January 26, 2023, while listing the achievements of his ministry in the past 42 months.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, Europe, the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) virtual meeting, FG
Pantami says FEC virtual meetings recorded over 100 hack attempts and they were traced to Europe. Photo credit: Professor Isa Ali Pantami
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Isa Pantami spills more details

The minister disclosed that since the present administration unveiled a policy on virtual engagements for public institutions in 2020, a total of 108 virtual FEC meetings have been held, The Cable reported.

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Pantami also said most of the hack attempts were traced to locations in Europe.

“We had to inform the country where the attacks were coming from,” he said.

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In another development, the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, revealed what the Federal Government did to foil new jailbreaks in the country's prisons.

Aregbesola, On Thursday, January 26, 2023, noted there were fresh attempts to break into some of the country’s correctional facilities after last year’s incident at Kuje Prison, but the Federal Government did not lose guard.

Aregbesola disclosed that most of the culprits were “sent to their Maker.”

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Source: Legit.ng

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Esther Odili (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Esther Odili is a journalist and a Politics/Current Affairs Editor at Legit.ng with 6+ years of experience. She Holds OND and HND in Mass Communication from the Nigerian Institue of Journalism (NIJ), where she was recognized as the best student in print journalism in 2018. Before joining Legit.ng, Esther has worked with other reputable media houses, such as the New Telegraph newspaper and Galaxy Television. In 2024, Esther obtained a certificate in advanced digital reporting from the Google News Initiative. Email: esther.odili@corp.legit.ng.