One of Nigeria’s commercial banks, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), has described reports of its website being seized by hackers as entirely false.
Checks by Naturenex on Wednesday night showed that the GTBank website, gtbank.com, was no longer accessible.
This issue arose just a day after the domain was renewed for another five years, extending its validity from August 13, 2024, through March 21, 2029, according to several online platforms that track domain information.
No hacker group has claimed responsibility for the alleged hack on the website.
According to Peoples Gazette, the alleged attackers may have set up a fraudulent version of the website in an attempt to phish customers’ sensitive information.
A cybersecurity expert familiar with Nigeria’s banking sector indicated that the compromise could have involved the bank’s login credentials, rather than the domain being hijacked for resale.
Despite the disruption to the website, the bank’s mobile applications on Android and iOS remained functional at the time of this report.
However, a top GTB executive (name withheld) who spoke with Daily Post, clarified that the bank had a connectivity issue, but it had nothing to do with hacking.
The source said, “It’s false. What we are experiencing is a connectivity issue and has nothing to do with the alleged hacking.”
