Nigerian authorities investigate illicit digital ID data sale

Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission is reassuring citizens and stakeholders that their digital identity data is secure, after a private company was revealed to be selling the personal data of Nigerians online.

A company called XpressVerify, billing itself as an identity verification provider, had unrestricted access to the country’s National Identification Database, reports the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, which stores the data associated with Nigerians’ National Identity Numbers. It was selling that data, in what NIMC refers to as …

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