By Ifeanyi Okolie
LAGOS — The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, yesterday said it has uncovered
a three-man syndicate who specialised in hacking
into data base of banks and other financial
institutions.
Spokesman for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, who
gave the identities of the suspects as Ola Lawal,
Olumide Kayode and Abass Adekunle, said they met
their waterloo when they attempted to compromise
the data base of Enterprise Bank Plc and steal
depositors’ funds using an electronic device known
as Keelog Key Grabber.
Wilson disclosed that their arrest was made
possible by an insider who revealed to the bank’s
management that some fraudsters were planning to
gain access to its network, using the Keelog Key
Grabber device.
He said a staff of the bank was contacted by one of
the suspects, who proposed a business
arrangement to him on how to hack into the bank’s
system. The staff subsequently informed the
management of the bank and he was instructed to
play along.
According him, “they agreed that the Keelog Key
Grabber device would be used to harvest
passwords of some of the key operation staff of the
bank. The grabber was meant to be plugged into the
computer system of the Head of OperationS of a
particular branch to retrieve information technology
configuration settings from the computer system
and pave the way for the fraudsters to move
customers’ funds out of the bank.”
Wilson further explained that Lawal was arrested
while trying to hand over the Keelog Key Grabber to
the staff. His arrest led to the arrest of two other
suspects, Olumide Kayode Maborukoje and Abass
Ajibade.
“Items recovered from them include a keylogger, a
laptop, a router, a modem, sim cards, USB keyhole
log with a template of keylogger and a jotter
containing some account numbers which they
intended to use for the fraud.
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