No fewer than 20 suspects are currently in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Police Force, in Abuja, for hacking the 2025 Computer-based test examinations conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), The Nation gathered yesterday.
The suspects are part of a syndicate believed to have over 100 persons, who specialise in hacking the computer servers of examination bodies like JAMB and the National Examinations Council (NECO).
Security sources disclosed that the suspects have confessed to sabotaging the Computer-Based-Test system in order to discredit JAMB and discourage students from using CBT for future WAEC/NECO examinations.
The source said one of the suspects confessed that the syndicate would install an attacking software on the examination body hardware. The software in turn would remotely hack JAMB servers at any targeted CBT centre.
The source who said the suspects are from Lagos, Edo, Anambra, Kano, Delta, among other states, however, pleaded that their names be left out since they would soon be charged to court.
