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Trending News: #EndSARS Anniversary: Police Fire Tear Gas To Disperse Gathering At Lekki Toll GateUS court sentences Nigerian-born man to eight years in prison for hacking, fraud schemesImo NYSC Abduction: DSS arraigns five suspects over abduction of 20 corps members in ImoAbducted Benue Catholic priest regains freedomPower supply disrupted as electricity generation drops to 476MWEx-Delta governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, dies at 71NAFDAC uncovers N500m fake alcohol factory in AbaWhat kind of security makes citizens disappear?NDLEA Intercepts Saudi-Bound Cannabis In Palm Oil Keg, ₦6.98bn Tramadol ShipmentEight soldiers killed as patrol vehicle hits ‘ISWAP landmine’ in BornoTwo Saudi Pilots Killed In Helicopter Crash Near Yemen BorderSERAP sues INEC over alleged ₦126bn missing electoral fundsNDLEA issues public alert after intercepting woman with drugs concealed in palm oil keg19 Dead, 25 Hurt In Stampede At India Religious GatheringPolice operatives dead as gunmen attack station in AbiaNiger State NSCDC commandant says deaths of ’37 miners’ were avoidableDSS arrests Maina’s son six years after jumping bailSecurity operatives arrest five suspects linked to abduction of 20 corps members in ImoMilitary operations alone can’t end banditry — Ribadu’20 injured, 50 houses damaged’ as gas pipeline explodes in RiversArmy arrests fake soldier accused of defrauding Gombe, Bauchi womenCorps member dies in Orientation campBandits fleeing Zamfara kill 5, burn houses in NigerNo Plan To Increase Electricity Tariff, FG InsistsNo Vacancy In Senate Presidency, Senators DeclareCourt Sentences Two Boko Haram Supporters To Life ImprisonmentUS supreme court to hear asylum case of Nigerian who ‘cooked for Unknown Gunmen’Nigeria’s inflation dropped to 14.63% in September, says NBSTinubu transmits executive bills to overhaul NDLEA, NSIB, replaces ASCONSuspected Fake Surgeon Arrested In Rivers State, Eight Facilities SealedNAFDAC seizes ‘N200m’ fake alcohol packaging materials in 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Wed. Oct 21st, 2026

Court jails hacker for defrauding bank $70,000

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers has convicted and sentenced a hacker, Eric Obulo, to one-year imprisonment for hacking the database of a popular commercial bank in and stealing $70,000 about N26.9m.

The Court presided over by Justice I. M. Sani, convicted Obulo following his arraignment by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

A statement by the EFCC Head, Media, and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said the court also gave the victim an option of an N5million fine.

The convict was arraigned on one count of unlawful interception by technical means the database of the bank and in the process defrauding the bank of $70,000.

The statement said the crime was committed in Port Harcourt in July 2019 adding that Obulo pleaded guilty when the charge was read to him.

    • Pascal Arogorn Ibe

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