Monday, July 27, 2009

Four Cyber Crime Cases reported in Bangalore

BANGALORE: Four cyber crime cases registered in Cyber Crime Police station of CID (Criminal Investigation Department). A loss of about Rs 4 lakhs through phishing and hacking cases were reported.
The hackers have drawn an amount of Rs 2.20 lakh from Srinath Imarati, an administrative officer with a private firm, Bearing Point, to four other accounts by making 10 transactions. His account was with ICICI bank of CMH road branch.
He received a `phishing’ e-mail in the name accountsupdate@icici.com which asked for passwords and other details. He believed the mail and gave details through e-mail. On 22nd he noticed his account was debited of Rs 2,20,500. After consulting the bank officials, he lodged a complaint with CID’s Cyber police.
In another incident, Girish C Rath has lost Rs 49,000 from his Axis bank account. He got to know that some miscreants did a unauthorised transfer of money to their accounts by hacking his e-banking password.
In yet another case, Subrahmanya, a senior consultant with WIPRO has registered a complaint with Cyber Crime Police about hacking of his HDFC account and transferred Rs 28,000 to other account.
Express News Service
In another case, Prasanna Kumar, an engineer of ITPL has lost his Rs 58,000 when he was in South Korea on official duty. The money was transferred by hacking the e-mail ID to one MS Aimsing Shankhil’s account.
The hacker had changed the e-mail ID prasana_rpk@yahoo.co.in to rippychuppy@ gmail.com and has also changed the mobile number from the account details.

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