Hyderabad: A case of cyber fraud spanning 24 states and eight cities has come to the fore.
In this connection, the Cyberabad Police Friday arrested a 24-year-old man for allegedly procuring and selling confidential data of 66.9 crore people, including students, defence personnel, government employees and customers of e-commerce companies.
The data was spread over 104 different categories such as debit and credit card-holders, frequent flyers, demat account holders, designers, chemists, business analysts, senior citizens, PAN card-holders, National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test students, high net-worth individuals, electricity consumers, according to the police.
The accused, Vinay Bharadwaj, was operating a website called ‘InspireWebz’ and an office in Faridabad, Haryana, and collected databases from two other individuals named Amer Sohail and Madan Gopal, who are yet to be arrested, said the Cyberabad Police, which are a wing of the Telangana Police.
Now, the Cyberabad police issued notices to as many as 11 organisations, including three banks, a social media giant and an Information Technology services company, asking their representatives to appear before it in connection with a breach of data of 66.9 crore persons across the country, a senior police official said on Sunday.
The 11 organisations’ representatives have been told to appear before the police during the next one week to furnish details on how the companies maintained their databases, what procedures and policies were followed in this regard and who could access the data. This could help investigators ascertain how the database was leaked and accessed by an ”unauthorised” person, among other relevant details, police said.
