I am curious why people target Nigerian infrastructure when thereβs barely much value in those datas.
The only issue here is that a large number of agencies and organizations were compromised by a single hack within a short period of time.
Look at it this way, even if you have the data of Nigerians, you can hardly use it to secure a tangible loan or carry out anything meaningful with the average personβs information. Compare this to targeting an average American, where it is much easier to obtain thousands of dollars using their identity. So the valuable stuff here remains data of UHNI, HNI which the bank will easily initiate actions to protect.
So the market value of Nigerian PIINs is very low, but this situation still highlights how poorly secured our infrastructure is.
Those who need our data for intelligence collection already have it π€·ββοΈ
βΌοΈπ³π¬ A massive breach allegedly from Remita, a major Nigerian payment processing platform, has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum.
βͺοΈ Total Size: ~3TB of S3 storage
βͺοΈ Data Includes: 800GB of KYC documents (IDs, passports, photos, bank statements, electricity bills), MySQL/Postgres databases, logs, docker registries, source codes, government HSM keys, GitKraken to S3 backups
βͺοΈ Source codes, 35,000 password hashes, and three databases