Anonymous has claimed responsibility for shutting down the website of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as it intensifies its attack on the Nigerian government over #EndSARS.
The hacker collective took down the website of the Nigerian government banker at 8:41 p.m., according to an announcement on its Twitter handle.
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However, to counter the attack, the apex Bank’s website has been loading intermittently, signaling that webmasters are working round the clock to prevent it from being brought down completely or to minimize damage.
Reports say the site was shut down two days after Anonymous took over the Nigerian police website, which is yet to go up as at press time on Friday evening.
Thousands of bank accounts and private information of officials were believed to have been compromised in the process.
It has not been ascertained if the dangerous hacking group collected sensitive information from the CBN web infrastructure system in the process or not.
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The CBN did not return calls from The New Diplomat seeking to know updates on the situation.
