India: Hacker Caught in Police Net in Bangalore
The cyber crime police arrested a man who allegedly hacked the internet banking accounts of several customers after stealing data from computers they had used at cyber cafés and siphoned off lakhs of rupees from their accounts.More here.
Director-General of Police (Corps of Detectives) Ajai Kumar Singh on Friday said Joseph of Virudanagar in Tamil Nadu, who had a diploma in computer science, was the kingpin of the 12-member gang they had arrested.
The police had found 100 bank account numbers, passwords and other details of individual customers from Joseph’s three email accounts. HDFC Bank, Citibank, Axis Bank and ICICI Bank had confirmed the authenticity of about 70 existing accounts and passwords that were found in these accounts, Dr. Singh said in a press release. Joseph’s accomplices approached cellphone holders in Karnataka, Kerala and Mumbai and offered them currency recharge at huge discounts. They provided the cellphone numbers to Joseph who recharged them by hacking into bank accounts and transferring funds online.
posted by Fergie @ 12/14/2007 08:57:00 PM
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