BREAKING: 20 ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED HACKING OF 2025 UTME RESULTS
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By: Motunrayo Aniwura
The Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Police Force have arrested no fewer than 20 individuals in connection with the hacking of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), a computer-based test organized by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
According to AIT, the arrested individuals are part of a larger syndicate reportedly made up of over 100 members, who specialize in breaching the computer systems of examination bodies such as JAMB and the National Examinations Council (NECO).
Security sources revealed that the suspects admitted to compromising the CBT system with the intent to undermine JAMB’s credibility and deter the continued use of computer-based testing in future exams conducted by NECO and the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
”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 quoted one of the suspect as confessing.
The entire hacking process was to influence high scores for special candidates who paid between N700,000 and N2 million.
The report further added that preliminary investigations revealed that several members of the syndicate own private schools and colleges, and make huge sums of money from their special centres
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