The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that the result viewing portal of the commission was attacked by hackers from outside the shores of the country during the recently held Ekiti and Osun governorship elections.
INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, revealed this while delivering a keynote address at a stakeholders’ conference on election result management in Abuja yesterday.
He also said the commission had recorded several other attempts to hack into the cyber security system of the result viewing portal.
The conference was organized by a civil society organization, YIAGA Africa, to launch the election result analysis dashboard (ERAD) report agenda.
Yakubu said: “Another technical concern for us is the repeated attempts to break through our cyber security system for the portal.
“Our engineers reported several cyber attacks 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 (result viewing center) and all our web presence, we must remain vigilant and continue to strengthen our defenses.
“We have tasked our engineers to do everything possible to fully protect the IReV and all our web resources.”
