The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has assured the public that the data of Nigerians has not been compromised, following allegations of exposure of sensitive data of citizens.

NIMC gave the assurance in a statement signed by its head of corporate communications, Kayode Adegoke, after Paradigm Initiative, a pan-African social enterprise, last Thursday raised an alarm over its discovery of the sale of national identification numbers (NINs), bank verification numbers (BVNs), and other personal data of Nigerians on a website for as low as N100.

Reacting to the report, NIMC said that it has not authorised any website or entity to sell or misuse the National Identification Number (NIN) amongst all the identities, and urged the public to disregard any claims or services these websites offer and should not give their data as they are potentially fraudulent and data provided by the public on such websites are gathered and stored to build the data services they illegally provide.

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