The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) says it will investigate the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) and other data controllers for alleged breach of taxpayers' data in the state.
The National Information Technology Development Agency says it will investigate the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service and other data controllers for alleged breach of taxpayers’ data in the state.
The director said though the state government had taken steps to mitigate the glitch, it was still against the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation and NITDA Act of 2007. “We commend LIRS for the swift remedial action in disabling the portal and pulling the website away from the public domain. The NITDA boss added that they would determine and ensure that data controllers or processors connected to the breach took responsibility and penalised to avoid future occurrence because confidential information of data subjects were exposed.
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