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1/2‼️🇳🇬 The Oyo State Ministry of Trade, Industry, Investment and Cooperatives (oyostatecommerce) has allegedly been breached, with 275,000 commerce identity card images leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free. ⠀ ‣ Threat Actor: AckLine ‣ Category: Data Leak ‣ Victim: Oyo State Ministry of Trade, Industry, Investment and Cooperatives ‣ Industry: Government / Commerce ⠀ The actor states the data was scraped roughly a year ago and that duplicates were not removed. The leak consists of ID card images issued to traders, farmers, artisans, and other commerce-registered individuals across Oyo State. ⠀ What's in it: ⠀ ▪️ 275,000 ID card images ▪️ Size: 21.5 GB compressed, around 70 GB extracted ▪️ Type: image files (commerce ID cards) ⠀ Fields visible on each card: ⠀ ▪️ Surname and other name ▪️ Date of birth ▪️ Gender ▪️ Business address ▪️ Occupation (farmer, artisan, videographer, phone engineer, etc.) ▪️ ID number ▪️ Card validity date ▪️ Photograph of cardholder

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I am excited at a major step forward for our digital economy: our Government is partnering with Flutterwave to formalise and grow our e-commerce ecosystem. This partnership with Flutterwave — led by a global rated innovator, Mr. Gbenga Agboola — is about one thing: creating opportunity. We want our traders in Onitsha Main Market, our artisans in Nnewi, our young tech talents in Awka, and every MSME across Anambra to sell to Nigeria and the world, safely and seamlessly. Flutterwave has shown what is possible when African technology solves African problems. By working together, we will digitize payments for small businesses, onboard more traders to online platforms, improve logistics-payment integration, and ensure our people can compete in the global digital marketplace. This is the “Solution” at work. To every young Anambra entrepreneur with a phone and a dream: government is building the rails so you can run. To Ndi Anambra in the diaspora: your state is open for digital business. We are connecting Anambra to the world. One transaction at a time. May Anambra Continue to win!