– A syndicate has confessed to erecting a radio mast to hack the Virtual Private Network of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)
– A member of the syndicate arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps’ (NSCDC) confessed to collecting N600,000 for the job
– One of the suspects said the deal was to extend the JAMB network from an accredited Computer Based Test centre to some cyber cafe operators for illegal registration
A syndicate in Abeokuta, the Ogun state, has confessed to erecting a radio mast to hack the Virtual Private Network of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Daily Post reports.
The syndicate arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps’ (NSCDC) was made up of proprietor of Bright Technologies, who confessed to collecting N600,000 for the illegal job.
A syndicate has confessed to collecting N600,000 to erect a radio mast to hack the Virtual Private Network of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)
One of the suspects, identified as Tosin, said the deal was to extend the JAMB network from an accredited Computer Based Test centre in Abeokuta to some cyber cafe operators for the purpose of illegal registration of candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
The proprietor during the interrogation confessed to the crime, saying that he created over 400 User Names and passwords.
He said: “We are using unlicensed spectrum to transmit to our customers using 2.4 gigabyte and 5.8 gigabyte radio. On March 28, they came from Kindle e-Learning Service that they wanted Internet services and after three days, they came again, (Tosin, Segun and Jide) that they wanted us to configure VPN for them.
“They told me they needed our services only during the JAMB registration and on April 1, we went to their office. They gave me the IP (Internet Protocol) address and I did pinging from my own Router. I have collected about N600,000 so far from Kindle e-Learning.”
Dr. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB Head of Information, said the intention of the group was to completely demobilise the Board process.
He said: “With what we saw, we are of the strong opinion that the DSS should also come in to consolidate on the investigation done by NSCDC.
“This is because if this group has the IP address of any bank; they could take the whole money in the banks.”
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps arrested no less than five individuals who had deployed fake biometric capturing machines to register applicants.
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