Saturday - January 14, 2012 6:00 PM PT
Well it was quite an exciting weekend here at Op Nigeria II. The weekend began with the sort of classic cyber battle that, well - I just love. The contestants in this epic struggle were the Naija Cyber Hactivists versus the Nigeria Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. It began early in the weekend with NCH issuing a demand that this government agency immediately arrest certain Nigerian officials whom they have evidence have been systematically looting the very fuel subsidy funds which sparked the Occupy Nigeria protests. This on the heels of the announcement earlier in the day by the Nigerian government stating their intention to somehow track down NCH and Anonymous Nigeria. The message being: go after the REAL criminals.
NCH issued an ultimatum giving the EFCC 24 hours to arrest the looters of the fuel subsidy fund. Of course they did now, and in a move which caught even the PLF an Anonymous by surprise, NCH defaced the EFCC web site with an extremely realistic looking press release with photos announcing that 21 corrupt Nigerian officials had been arrested for systematically looting the much debated fuel subsidy fund. Many media outlets were initially fooled by this, as NCH announced it to the world through various channels - but played it off as if the announcement were real and the EFCC had in fact relented.
At that point the EFCC issued a press statement (after many hours) indicating they had been hacked and the press release was a phony. They also threatened to track down NCH and the hackers responsible. NCH thought this was lulzy and began tweeting details of this system admin in realtime as he actually attempted to track down the perpetrators of the hacks. Finally the entire affair ended Sunday night as the Naija Cyber Hactivists, still in control of the EFCC web server, turned their front page into a giant realtime chat room and invited all of Occupy Nigeria to come post their comments.
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