By Olaitan Ibrahim
The National Bureau of Statistics has announced that its official website has been compromised by unidentified hackers.
This development was disclosed in a statement posted on the bureau’s official X (formerly Twitter) account on Wednesday.
The NBS urged the public to disregard any information or reports shared on its behalf from unofficial sources until the website is fully restored.
The bureau assured the public that its technical team is actively working to resolve the issue.
The statement read, “This is to inform the public that the NBS website has been hacked, and we are working to recover it. Please disregard any message or report posted until the website is fully restored.”
A check on the website confirmed the breach, with the homepage displaying the message, “Page Hacked.”
Subsequent attempts to access the site resulted in an “Internal Server Error” message.
The error notification instructed users to contact the server administrator at [email protected] and indicated that more details might be available in the server’s error log.