20 suspects have reportedly been arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Police Force for allegedly hacking the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.
According to AIT, the suspects are part of a syndicate consisting of over 100 persons with a speciality in hacking computer servers of examination bodies like the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Examinations Council (NECO).
Per the report, security sources disclosed that the suspects have confessed to sabotaging the CBT system in order to discredit JAMB.
The hacking was also done to discourage students from using CBT for future examinations to be conducted by NECO and the West African Examination Council (WAEC).
“The syndicate would install an attacking software on the examination body hardware. The software, in turn, would remotely hack JAMB servers at any targeted CBT centre,” a source shared.
It was also gathered that the hacking process was to get high scores for special candidates who paid between N700,000 and N2 million.
Preliminary investigations further revealed that several members of the syndicate own private schools and colleges, and make huge sums of money from their special centres.