Data Breach: Providus bank customers confirm unauthorised transactions on cards

Customers of Providus Bank, present ProvidusUnity, person reported unauthorised paper transactions connected their paper months aft a information breach affected aggregate nationalist institutions successful Nigeria. 

Affected customers took to their X accounts on Friday to marque nationalist their ordeal. Several customers who preferred anonymity confirmed the incidental to DAILY POST. 

When DAILY POST contacted the spokesperson of Providus Bank, Dafe Ivwurie, helium neither confirmed nor denied claims by immoderate customers. 

“Will bash immoderate interior probe and revert,” helium told DAILY POST. 

However, helium told DAILY POST that helium would revert with much accusation connected the matter, which helium is yet to bash astatine the clip of reporting.

Recall that successful March 2026 delicate information of Sterling Bank, Remita and different institutions was breached by hackers. A hacker, Bytetobreach, published delicate information of affected Nigerian nationalist institutions. 

In a confirmation of the information breach, the Nigeria Data Protection Commission, successful April 2026, said it has commenced an probe into the ...