{"id":238647,"date":"2026-07-13T18:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-okays-trial-of-4-for-hacking-into-firms-bank-account\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:34:48","slug":"nigeria-court-okays-trial-of-4-for-hacking-into-firms-bank-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-okays-trial-of-4-for-hacking-into-firms-bank-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Court Okays Trial of 4 for Hacking Into Firm&#8217;s Bank Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">ABUJA \u2014 The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, gave the Inspector General of Police (IGP) the nod to arraign four persons for allegedly hacking into the financial records of a company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">According to an eight-count charge before the court, the defendants used electronic communication systems and banking computer infrastructure to access, intercept and disclose confidential financial data belonging to a corporate account holder, Makers Island Company Limited, without lawful authority&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607130737.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA \u2014 The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, gave the Inspector General of Police (IGP) the nod to arraign four persons for allegedly hacking into the financial records of a company. According to an eight-count charge before the court, the defendants used electronic communication systems and banking computer infrastructure to access, intercept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[4313,258,256,7089,6185,7082,18912,257,4687,393,17174,254,6564],"class_list":["post-238647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-account","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-court","tag-firms","tag-hacking","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-okays","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}