{"id":265613,"date":"2015-03-29T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/nigeriadecides-inec-database-wasnt-compromised-in-hacking-incident-says-jega\/"},"modified":"2015-03-29T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T11:32:00","slug":"nigeriadecides-inec-database-wasnt-compromised-in-hacking-incident-says-jega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/03\/29\/nigeriadecides-inec-database-wasnt-compromised-in-hacking-incident-says-jega\/","title":{"rendered":"#NigeriaDecides: INEC Database Wasn\u2019t Compromised in Hacking Incident, Says Jega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.informationng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Attahiru-Jega3.jpg\" alt=\"Attahiru Jega\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" \/>The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has declared that none of the commission\u2019s databases was compromised in Saturday\u2019s cyber-attack on the electoral body\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>The INEC chairman, who was a guest on Weekend File, a Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) programme hosted by veteran newscaster, Cyril Stober, said the attack on the commission\u2019s website, which lasted less than forty minutes, did not disrupt the election plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I want to stress is that no database on the website is compromised, but only the information on the website\u201d, Mr. Jega said.<\/p>\n<p>While reiterating that the commission\u2019s sensitive data were on a more secure server different from that which was hacked yesterday by a group of Nigerian hackers, Jega noted that the incident was a test of INEC\u2019s level of preparedness to respond to cyber-threats.<\/p>\n<p>The INEC boss, while responding to a question on the card readers, said despite the pockets of hues and cries over its use, if given another opportunity, he would use it again as the device has substantial level of credibility.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has declared that none of the commission\u2019s databases was compromised in Saturday\u2019s cyber-attack on the electoral body\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}