Lagos State Official Website Hacked

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The official website of the Lagos State government has been hacked by a group which left a message on the homepage.

The message listed the USA, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar as sponsors of terrorism.

Persecond news reported an official to have said that the content of the website was affected, but the hackers did not succeed in directing traffic to another site.

“The State government works in full coordination with the competent authorities and agencies in the state to identify these terrorist hackers,” he told the online news platform in confidence.

The Lagos State government had since brought down the website as at 1.30pm Friday.

UPDATE 20:00

Meanwhile, the official website of the Lagos state government, www.lagosstate.gov.ng which was hacked on Friday afternoon by suspected cyberterrorist has been restored.

Work is still ongoing to fully restore the site as data is being uploaded.