Hackers target Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics: Website taken down

Hackers target Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics: Website taken down

SAHARA REPORTERS

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has raised an alarm that its official website has been hacked by unknown fraudsters.

The Bureau, which made this known in a short statement issued on its X social media handle at 8.32pm on Wednesday, warned the general public to disregard any message or report posted on its behalf by any source until the website is fully restored.

It noted that its technical team is working to recover the website.

The statement reads, “This is to inform the public that the NBS Website has been hacked and we are working to recover it. Please disregard any message or report posted until the website is fully restored.”

SaharaReporters’ quick check on the Bureau’s website confirmed that it displayed, “Page Hacked.”

Further attempts to access the website failed as it displayed: “Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

“Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@nigerianstat.gov.ng to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.

“More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

“Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”

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