There is trouble in paradise as the Nigeria’ s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is on the trail of a group of computer hackers , who have stolen N6. 28billion , from a new generation bank in Nigeria.The head of the IT in the bank hit is Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou , who had worked for the bank win the Information and Communication Technology (ICT ) department of the unidentified bank .
There is no trace of him and it is alleged that he was the one who had conspired with others and hacked into the bank ’s computers , disbursing the funds to various accounts as they pleased . Uyoyou is said to have carried out the massive heist over a short period of time .
Mr . Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman , said : “ They most likely got through to [ Uyoyou ] because he ’ s an IT person in the bank . One Saturday , he took the ‘ cyber gang’ to the bank under the pretext that he was going to carry out some maintenance work , allowing them access to hardware, and they commenced to penetrate the bank ’ s database . ”
Uwujaren said they then increased the balances of some accounts. Sources told us that no culprits have been arrested yet and the spokesman said “ The matter is still under investigation .” Banking industry sources however said that it is an Abuja branch of a new generation bank .
Source:NigeriaCamera
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