The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has disclosed that security operatives arrested a suspect, Sahabi Zubairu from Takum in Taraba State, alongside several accomplices for hacking into the board's internal intranet portal and diverting over ₦10 million.
How the Intranet Fraud Happened
- Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, Prof. Oloyede explained that the syndicate gained unauthorized access to the profiles of JAMB ad-hoc staff on the internal portal and replaced their bank account numbers to divert their allowances.
- He noted that the accounting department initially missed the discrepancy because they failed to cross-check whether the names on the substituted bank accounts matched the registered names of the ad-hoc staff owners.
- Prof. Oloyede confirmed that no candidate data or examination records were affected, all genuine ad-hoc staff have since been paid their full allowances, and recovery of the diverted funds is underway.
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