Our result portal attacked from Asia during previous polls: Nigeria’s electoral commission
ABUJA, Nigeria (The Informant247) – Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) result viewing (IReV) portal came under attack from hackers across the world during previous elections, official said on Friday.
“Our engineers reported several cyberattacks 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,” INEC boss Mahmood Yakubu, INEC said this while delivering a keynote address at a stakeholders’ conference on election result management in Abuja.
“However, while we are confident in the security solutions that we have deployed for IReV and all our web presence, we must remain vigilant and continue to strengthen our defences. We have tasked our engineers to do everything possible to fully protect the IReV and all our web resources.”
Yakubu also stated that INEC is working to address other challenges which are administrative in nature.
“For example, we found that some of the low-quality uploads that occurred in the field, which some of the observers have also noted, were due to the unavailability or substitution of presiding officers that were trained prior to the elections,” he said.
“We shall administratively deal with this challenge and ensure that only adequately trained Presiding Officers are deployed for elections.
“Also, more hands-on training may be required to ensure that all those involved throughout the value chain of the IReV are fully ready for what is bound to be a major outing during the 2023 general election.”
