Following the reported incident of unauthorised National Identification Number (NIN) verification by expressverify.com, investigation reveals that a third-party who, among others, was originally authorised to provide verification services to citizens and genuine businesses might have allowed expressverify.com to use its NIN verification credentials to conduct verification.
The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), which stated this, said the circumstances surrounding this permission is still under investigation.To remedy this incident, NDPC said National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), in line with established remediation protocols, barred all forms of access to its database.
The data management commission said though…
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