Operation Blackout: CSA rejects FBI narrative, insists it led crackdown

“Ghanaian authorities planned, coordinated and executed the operation within Ghana’s legal and institutional frameworks,” the CSA stated, insisting that it “was not conducted under a foreign operational command.”Ghana’s Cyber Security Authority (CSA) has insisted that Ghanaian authorities led Operation Blackout, also known as Operation Cyber Hunt, rejecting suggestions that the operation was independently conceived or commanded by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The operation involved Ghana’s National Security Council, the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, the UK’s National Crime Agency, the FBI, Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and other Ghanaian institutions.