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REVEALED: IPPIS Payroll Validation, FG Workers' Personal Data on OAGF Website Have Been Hijacked
Sep 13, 2024
The ‘‘ section on the official of the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) headed by Oluwatoyin Sakirat Madein has been hijacked by an unknown hacker.
Similarly, workers’ personal data stored on the official website of the IPPIS Secretariat, a department at the OAGF, is susceptible to attack, FIJ can report.
FIJ on Friday that the secure site layer (SSL) feature of the website belonging to the IPPIS Secretariat had expired and remained unrenewed for over a year.
The functions of the secretariat and that of the OAGF are interconnected. While the secretariat functions to securely manage the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), the federal government employees’ payroll, the OAGF’s area of responsibility includes the supervision of accounts of federal ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).
Leaving the SSL unrenewed is a recipe for the breach of the data contained in the website’s directory.
Following FIJ’s report, a source who sought to remain unnamed alerted FIJ to a more troubling finding about the website: workers’ details have been exposed.
With the tip-off and further findings, FIJ can now report that tons of personal data of government employees have been left vulnerable on the website.
Workers’ information such as surnames, middle names, first names, phone numbers, email addresses and dates of birth were exposed.
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