I was browsing one of my favourite sites today which is
https://infosecwriteups.com/ and I saw an article where a hacker boasted that he broke into a government server and stole over three million
NIN of citizens.
I lost the full story because I could not bookmark the article. So I had to dig the Internet to discover the full information. And this happened in Nigeria. The hacker said he got one more s3 bucket with nuclei which contains upto 5gigs of data. The whole country is in total shock or panic now.
I have to go to the NIN
website to know the kind of information that is in the NIN. I was shocked to see this.
The NIN is set to be used for all transactions in Nigeria requiring identity verification so you’ll be using your NIN for
obtaining your National e-ID card
travel (international passport application & acquisition)
opening personal bank accounts
getting your driver’s license
obtaining your Permanent Voters’ Card
participating in the National Health Insurance Scheme
payment of your taxes
transactions related to your contributory pension scheme
access to welfare and other relevant services from the Nigerian Government
transactions with social security implications
land transactions subject to the Land Use Act
any other transactions NIMC may so prescribe and list in the Federal Government Gazette
Look at the kind of data that is in the NIN. Pension data, international passport, bank account information, tax payment information, social security, estate information and more. We can say that hacker has kill over 3 million people.
Please avoid
KYC. If a government server can be hacked. Any server can be hacked.
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