The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) held 20 suspects on suspicion of hacking the 2025 computer-based test results.
In Abuja, agents from the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Police Force apprehended the suspects.
The suspects are a group of over 100 individuals who are reportedly working to hack the computer servers of examination boards like JAMB and the National Examinations Council (NECO).
The suspects have admitted to sabotaging the CBT system in an effort to discredit JAMB and deter students from using it in the future examinations NECO and the West African Examination Council (WAEC) say security sources.
The entire hacking process was used to influence special candidates’ high scores that ranged from 700,000 to 2 million.
According to what it was discovered, several syndicate members are wealthy through their special centers’ private schools and colleges.
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The results for 2025 UTME were released two weeks after JAMB’s release.
More than 78% of candidates received less than 200 points out of the 400 maximum points available, according to analysis.
The results of 379, 997 candidates from 157 centers in its Lagos and South-East regions were affected, according to Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, on May 14.
He cited malfunctioning server updates that prevented the first three days of the exam from displaying candidate responses.
Before the results were made public, Oloyede claimed one of the company’s technical service providers concealed the issue.
Source: Channels TV
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