Nigeria’s central bank has denied claims that its website was hacked. A communications officer for the institution dispelled the rumors in a statement posted to Twitter late Friday night.
“Contrary to claims in the social media alleging that the website of the Central Bank of Nigeria has been breached by malicious persons, we wish to state categorically that our website is secure,” the statement read.
Reports that the homepage of the bank’s website was unreachable or that attempts to access it resulted in error messages for web users swirled Friday evening. This came amid allegations that the decentralized hacking group Anonymous was responsible for bringing the website down.
Bank officials chastised the public for giving fuel to the rumor mill and assured web users that the country’s financial assets were not at risk.
CBN Website Not Hacked pic.twitter.com/nZFdabmARo
— Central Bank of Nigeria (@cenbank) October 16, 2020
“We wish to assure the Nigerian public and indeed all our other stakeholders that the CBN website is adequately protected and that there is no cause for alarm,” the bank’s statement read.
“We also wish to advise the online community to desist from peddling fake news aimed at undermining the integrity of the CBN, which is our collective asset.”
