The Nigerian Police Special Fraud Unit in Ikoyi, Lagos State, has charged Timothy Fashina Oluwabukola and Anthony Imonina Odemerho with hacking MTN Nigeria's computers and stealing N1.9billion in airtime and data.

The students, from Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY) Abeokuta and Resign Regal Academy Benin City, were arraigned before Justice Akintayo Aluko.

The charges include conspiracy, unauthorised access to MTN’s Application Programming Interface (API), and unlawful conversion.

The accused, who have pleaded not guilty, are alleged to have committed the offenses between January and April 2024 in Lagos and Edo states.

Prosecution counsel Justine Enang claimed that the defendants accessed MTN’s API and fraudulently used the stolen data, which violated the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015, as amended in 2024, and the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.

The prosecution requested a trial date and sought remand in Nigerian Correctional Services custody. The defense has filed bail applications.

Justice Aluko has scheduled a hearing for the bail applications on August 5.

The charges detail the defendants' alleged manipulation of MTN’s systems and conversion of stolen airtime into data.

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Timothy Fashina Oluwabukola and Anthony Imonina Odemerho

The students, from Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY) Abeokuta and Resign Regal Academy Benin City, were arraigned before Justice Akintayo Aluko.

OP please bolden these words in your post.
nlfpmod fergie001 please move to FP ASAP.

I should not be teaching you guys your job.

Thank you.

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OP please bolden these words in your post.
nlfpmod fergie001 please move to FP ASAP.

I should not be teaching you guys your job.

Thank you.

The way the do to omo Igbo names

No case , MTN and those guys are both thieves

ok

Nawa o

A thief wey thief from thiefer!

Abeg release them.

I need see those guys, I need the software they used on this heist.

They are just too good abeg.

Na brains be that o.. FG no go fit channel them to good use now.. na to go dump them for jail.. When they come out from prison,they become worse. Most of the criminals and kidnappers around the country are ex convicts mostly .. They call it correctional center,but it’s actually a place where they train heartless criminals and terrible drug addicts ..

SpaceX:
How come they didn't cover their tracks?

Clever by half very dangerous.

MTN should just employ them.
They're good hands.
Talented kids.

Wow

Employ them, they are talented or retrain them and employ them.

You won't have pity on these guys if you operate Telecom website, thank God for our advanced security now, but how can a whole MTN have a porous api framework? They should employ me let me fix the loophole

Talent ti kpoju!

It's just to direct it rightly