{"id":23941,"date":"2025-05-27T04:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=23941"},"modified":"2025-05-27T04:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:32:37","slug":"zenith-bank-portal-hacked-millions-stolen-as-kaduna-man-jailed-for-cyber-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=23941","title":{"rendered":"Zenith Bank Portal Hacked, Millions Stolen as Kaduna Man Jailed for Cyber Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">A Kaduna-based cybercriminal, Nureedeen Siraj, has been convicted and jailed after hacking into Zenith Bank\u2019s portal and fraudulently stealing <\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u20a63.4 million<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Siraj used a rogue code to breach Zenith Bank\u2019s digital infrastructure in December 2022. He illicitly credited his personal account with <\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u20a63,400,000<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, triggering an investigation that led to his arrest based on actionable intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The EFCC arraigned Siraj before Justice A. Isiaka of the Kaduna State High Court on a one-count charge of theft. The charge read:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThat you, Nureedeen Siraj \u2018M\u2019 sometime in December, 2022 in Kaduna State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly took out of the possession of Zenith Bank Plc the sum of \u20a63,400,000.00 into your Zenith Bank account without the bank\u2019s consent, thereby committing theft, an offence contrary to Section 270(1) and punishable under Section 271 of the Penal Code Law, 2017 of Kaduna State.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Siraj pleaded guilty to the charge. Prosecuting counsel, Y.J. Matiyak, urged the court to convict and sentence him, a motion that was not opposed by his defence counsel, Fatima Ustaz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Justice Isiaka sentenced the convict to <\/span><span class=\"s1\">two years imprisonment<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> with an option of <\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u20a6300,000 fine<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. The court also ordered Siraj to <\/span><span class=\"s1\">restitute the stolen \u20a63.4 million<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> to Zenith Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">The case raises fresh concerns over cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Nigeria\u2019s banking sector.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kaduna-based cybercriminal, Nureedeen Siraj, has been convicted and jailed after hacking into Zenith Bank\u2019s portal and fraudulently stealing \u20a63.4 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10777,101,10776,10775,10774,484],"class_list":["post-23941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cyber-theft","tag-jailed","tag-kaduna-man","tag-millions-stolen","tag-portal-hacked","tag-zenith-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23947,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23941\/revisions\/23947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}