DSS, police arrest 20 for hacking JAMB server

The operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have apprehended 20 suspects for allegedly hacking the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

The suspects were arrested by the security operatives in Abuja, the nation’s capital, on Friday, May 23, 2025.

The suspects are part of a syndicate believed to have over 100 persons, who specialise in hacking the computer servers of examination bodies, including JAMB and the National Examinations Council (NECO).

Security sources disclosed that the suspects have confessed to sabotaging the CBT system to discredit JAMB and discourage students from using CBT for future examinations to be conducted by NECO and the West African Examination Council (WAEC).

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The entire hacking process was to influence high scores for special candidates who paid between N700,000 and N2 million, Channels TV reported.

It was gathered that several members of the syndicate own private schools and colleges, and make huge sums of money from their special centres.

This comes two weeks after JAMB released the 2025 UTME results.

An analysis showed that more than 78 per cent of candidates scored less than 200 points out of the 400 maximum points obtainable.

The Star