The Federal Government has exposed claims that the country’s National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, server was hacked.

Reports made the rounds on Monday that the NIMC server was hacked and over three million National Identification Number, NIN, of Nigerians taken.

Reacting, nevertheless, in a statement on Tuesday by the Director-General of NIMC, Engr. Aliyu Aziz, he said the servers were not hacked.

He stated they were fully optimised at the greatest international security levels.

Part of the statement read: “Over the years, through painstaking efforts, NIMC has actually developed a reputable and robust system for Nigeria’s identity database. The Commission and its facilities are accredited to the ISO 27001:2013 Information Security Management System Standard which are revalidated annually”.

“Also the possession of a person’s NIN slip does not total up to access to the National Identity Database.”

The Commission guaranteed Nigerians that it will continue to support the greatest ethical requirements in data security on behalf of the Government to guarantee compliance with data protection and privacy guidelines.

The NIMC Director-General likewise described that the Commission does not use nor save information on the AWS cloud platform or any public cloud.

The Commission assured the public that the belongings of a NIN slip does not admit to the National Identity Database, however that the NIN slip is simply a physical assertion of a person’s identity.

“Under the information security policies, no licensed partner/vendor is licensed to scan and keep copies of people NIN slips however rather validate the NIN utilizing the approved and authorized verification platforms/channels supplied.

“As part of our policies to secure personally identifiable info kept in the National Identity Database, the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy through NIMC had released the Tokenization functions of the NIN verification service. This solution is to protect the individual information of people and make sure constant user rights and personal privacy,” the statement added.

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