BREAKING NEWS: DSS indicts APC of cloning INEC data base

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In less that forty days to the conduct of the 2015 general elections, the Department of the State Security Service(DSS) has said the following its raid on a building allegedly belonging to the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Lagos State, the operatives said it has found out that the party is using the building for cloning of INEC data base including its permanent voters card (PVC).

It would be recalled that the DSS had on 24th of November, 2014 issued a statement that it had carried on a raid on a building allegedly belonging to APC situated at Bola Ajibola Street, Ikeja, Lagos where it said cloning of Electoral materials were taking place.

While addressing the press during the display of the seized materials at the DSS headquarters, Maryln Ogar, Deputy Director, Public Relations of the DSS said having received information that the said building was being used for cloning of INEC Permanent Voters Card (PVC) "by some unscrupulous persons", the DSS operatives swung into action by first obtaining a search warrant before it raid saying this was contrary to the claim by the APC that its building was accessed illegally.

She stressed that the said building was being occupied illegally adding that it does not have a sign post or banner to indicate that it belonged to any company or political party.

She said in the course of investigation, the DSS was able to recovered electoral materials and twenty one (21) hacking tutorial videos.

"In the course of investigation, the following discoveries were made: A temporary Voters Card; A Permanent Voters Card; one of the hard drives recovered from the building contained a video of twenty-one (21) hacking tutorials.

"The tutorial video focused on the following areas:

a. How to become a hacker and steps to take to avoid
detection in the process of hacking web servers;

b. Steps and procedures of system hacking, passwords cracking, decrypting, escalating access
privileges, and creating backdoors to servers;

c. It also explicitly explained how to evade security of databases such as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), firewalls, and other measures put in place to deter hackers;


d. The video outlined ways to identify vulnerabilities in systems and how to surreptitiously drop a USB flash drive in a target establishment, which when plugged into any computer, transmits malicious codes enough to gain access into and compromise the entire system of the target organization; and

e. Finally, the video explains how to hack into the systems of media houses, with the aim of broadcasting fake stories or headlines.

DSS also alleged that It also discovered that the APC registered under-aged persons including several infants and babies as members of the party.

"Similarly, the APC registered several security personnel from the Nigerian Army (NA), the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) among others, in their uniforms as members of the party;

"Furthermore the APC had multiple registrations of individuals in multiples of 16, 12, and 10;

"Several foreigners were also registered as its members;

"Also, the APC filled forms without passport photographs, and have books containing names of people with their phone numbers;

"We equally discovered were several envelopes containing passport photographs of various individuals;


The DSS said from the evidence it has in its domain, it suspects that there was an elaborate and well articulated plan to inflate APC Party membership data as well as hack into INEC’s voter registration database through the creation of party membership forms and cards to match INEC’s voters register across the country.

She said the arrested suspects have since been charged to Court, adding that investigation was still ongoing. "We shall update the public of further developments.