The Police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos has arraigned two students – Timothy Fashina Oluwabukola and Anthony Imonina Odemerho – before the Federal High Court sitting in the state for allegedly hacking into MTN Nigeria Communication Plc’s computers and stealing airtime and data valued at N1.9 billion.
Oluwabukola and Odemerho were said to be students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY) Abeokuta, Ogun State, and Resign Regal Academy in Benin City, Edo State, respectively.
The two were arraigned before Justice Akintayo Aluko, on a four-count charge of conspiracy, unauthorized access into the company’s web-based platform known as Application Programming Interface (API) and unlawful conversion.
The duo and others said to be at large, were alleged to have committed the offences between January and April this year, in Lagos and Edo states.
The Prosecutor alleged that the defendants conspired and accessed the telco’s Application Programming Interface (API) and obtained data from the said application, which they used to defraud MTN to the tune of N1.9 billion.
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