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  The Lagos State Security Trust Fund has urged residents of the state and Nigeria at large to protect their digital identity against theft amid rising cyber fraud. Speaking during a YouTube session on Saturday, the Lagos State Coordinator of LSSTF Campaign Against Crime, Cultism and Other Vices, Dr Oladimeji Moses, stressed that the training was organised to address the prevalence of cybercrime. According to him, data from the National Bureau of Statistics indicated a rise in cyber fraud, which has resulted in loss of money to victims. He said, “The reason why we are here today is because of the prevalence of cybercrime everywhere. From the statistics of the NBS, over 119,000 data breaches were recorded in 2025, and millions were lost to cybercrime, which is becoming a major issue in our community. She added that too much exposure of an individual’s identity on the social media space puts such an individual at risk of digital identity theft, which may be used to perpetrate crime. ...