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Nigeria’s data regulator recently folded its own digital shutters to survive a wave of aggression. The National Data Protection Commission (NDPC) endured 1,500 hacking attempts in a short window, forcing a temporary network shutdown. Dr Vincent Olatunji, the National Commissioner, confirmed the breach attempts during a training session in Lagos. This blackout was a defensive…
A sophisticated wave of ransomware attacks has battered Nigerian government agencies and tier-1 financial institutions over the past three weeks, exposing deep fragilities in the nation’s digitising economy. Reports from the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) confirm that “coordinated and sophisticated” threat actors have breached critical infrastructure, causing…
Nigeria’s data protection regulator has issued an urgent warning over what it describes as coordinated cyber threats targeting the country’s financial systems and critical digital infrastructure, urging organisations handling personal data to immediately reinforce their security frameworks. In a Data Protection Advisory issued on Thursday and signed by its Head of Legal, Enforcement and…
The Nigeria Data Protection Commission has thrown its weight behind an international enforcement framework targeting the proliferation of deepfakes and synthetic media, as global regulators move to close privacy gaps opened by generative artificial intelligence technologies. Nigeria has formally aligned with more than 60 data protection and privacy regulators worldwide in endorsing new international standards…
Nigeria’s data protection authority has launched a formal investigation into Temu, the fast-growing Chinese e-commerce platform, over alleged violations of the country’s data protection law, raising fresh questions about how foreign digital platforms handle the personal information of millions of Nigerian users. The Nigeria Data Protection Commission confirmed the development on Monday, with its…
