The Nigeria Police Force has arrested no fewer than six suspects for allegedly hacking a telecommunication company in Nigeria.
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This is contained in a statement by the Force Spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Wednesday.
Hundeyin disclosed that the suspects allegedly gained unlawful access into the core systems of the telecommunication company.
He said they diverted airtime and mobile data worth N7.7 billion.
\u201cThe syndicate was responsible for the illegal diversion of a telecommunications company\u2019s airtime and data resources, resulting in an estimated financial loss of over \u20a67.7 billion,\u201d the statement reads.
\u201cThe breakthrough followed a petition by a Nigerian telecommunications company, which reported suspicious and unauthorised activities within its billing and payments infrastructure.
\u201cInvestigations revealed that internal staff login credentials had been compromised, granting threat actors unlawful access to core systems.
\u201cFollowing weeks of planning, coordinated enforcement operations were executed in October 2025 in Kano and Katsina States, with a follow-up arrest in the Federal Capital Territory.
\u201cThe suspects would be charged to court on the completion of the investigation.
\u201cMeanwhile, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, Ph.D., NPM, has commended the officers involved in the investigation for their professionalism.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Nigeria Police Force has arrested no fewer than six suspects for allegedly hacking a telecommunication company in Nigeria.\u200bThis is contained in a statement by the Force Spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Wednesday. Hundeyin disclosed that the suspects allegedly gained unlawful access into the core systems of the telecommunication company. He said they diverted airtime and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n