Data of SSS agents leaked on Internet

 THERE are indications that the safety of agents of the State Security Service has been compromised with personnel records of current and former operatives leaked on the internet, Associated Press reports.

The leak, sources said, was already creating panic among SSS operatives  and other employees of the  agency.

 About 60 agents, including the Director-General of the SSS, Ekpeyong Ita, and other serving and former employees, reportedly had their names, mobile phone numbers, contact and bank account information listed on the internet.

 Many of the ‘exposed’ agents, according to the AP reports on Thursday, expressed worries and embarrassment at the leakage of their private details.

 The SSS deputy Director of Media and Public Relations, Marilyn Ogar,  said the AP was false.

 Ogar said, “The report is false because the AP reporter that filed the story failed to give me the link to the website that allegedly published the personal data of our personnel.

“How come it was only the AP reporter that saw the website? Besides, he had published his story before calling me for reactions. That is what he did the other time when he published a false report that government planned to build a special prison for Boko Haram suspects in Lagos; I don’t know where he gets these unsubstantiated stories that he published,”