Hackers and Nigerian military website

Major-General Chris Olukolade, the Director of Defence information, Nigeria military twitted the following: “Our website has been defaced. There is an ISIS-style attempt to hack into government platforms. Our provider, @Galaxybackbone is on it,” Olukolade announced on his Twitter handle @GENOlukolade. A statement later released on Friday by Olukolade said: “The site was defaced at the front end. However, the hackers could not infiltrate the database of the site. “Preliminary investigations show the attack was from the end of the site’s host. One Ima Sadiq who posed as the hacker has been knocked off and normal activities on the channel has resumed.” Olukolade added that the blog site was apparently targeted “because of its role as a major channel for disseminating information on military and security activities in the nation’s counter-terrorism campaign”. However, Olukolade later released a statement, saying the site has been restored. “The site was defaced at the front end. However, the hackers could not infiltrate the database of the site,” he said. “Preliminary investigation shows that the attack was from the end of the site’s host. The hacker has been knocked off and normal activities on the channel has resumed. “Apparently, the blog site was targeted because of its role as a major channel for disseminating information on military and security activities in the nation’s counter-terrorism campaign.”