The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that hackers hacked its result viewing (IReV) webpage during the recent elections in Ekiti and Osun states.
This was said by INEC Chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu on Friday in Abuja while delivering the keynote address at a stakeholders’ conference on election result management.
YIAGA Africa, a civic society organization (CSO), organized the gathering to introduce the election result analysis dashboard (ERAD) report agenda.
“Another technical concern for us is the repeated attempts to break through our cyber security system for the portal,” he said.
“Our engineers reported several cyberattacks on the portal during the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections, some of them from as far as Asia. I am glad to note that all of them failed.
“However, while we are confident in the security solutions that we have deployed for IReV and all our web presence, we must remain vigilant and continue to strengthen our defences. We have tasked our engineers to do everything possible to fully protect the IReV and all our web resources.”