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Polaris Bank database hacker, Nnamdi Obulo imprisoned

Polaris Bank database hacker, Nnamdi Obulo has gotten a year jail term.
OnyxNews Nigeria reports that the man whose name is Eric Nnmadi Obulo hacked into Polaris Bank Computer and stole $70,000 about N26.9m has now been jailed for one year in Port Harcourt.
Justice I.M. Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, convicted and sentenced Nnamdi Obulo.
He was re-arraigned by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on one- count charge bordering on illegal interception by technical means, into Polaris Bank’s data base and taking possession of $70,000 about N26.9m.
“That you Eric Nnamdi Obulo, on or about July, 2019 in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did intercept by technical means the data base of Polaris Bank and in the process took possession of the sum of Seventy Thousand Dollars {$70, 000.00} into your Polaris Bank Account no. 2130049253 and thereby committed an Offense contrary to Section 12 (1) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition Prevention etc.) Act 2015 and punishable under the same section of the Act,” the one count charge read.
He pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him.
looking at his plea, prosecuting counsel, K. W Chukwuma-Eneh asked the court to convict and sentence him accordingly.
Defence counsel, D.E. Nowo, pleaded for leniency in view of the convict’s “remorse and being a first- time offender who did not waste the precious time of the court”
Justice Sani consequently convicted and sentenced Eric Nnamdi Obulo to one-year imprisonment with an option of fine of Five Million Naira only.
Obulo ran into mess, when Polaris Bank filed a petition against him, with the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the EFCC on October 14, 2019. The petitioner stated that, sometime in October, 2019, the bank’s database and core banking applications were manipulated by unknown fraudsters, resulting in the crediting of six accounts belonging to the convict with a total sum of Seventy Thousand United States Dollars, ($70,000).
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