Arrested For Hacking Cellphone Recharge Site In India
The Times Of India reported that two members of the hacker group Indishell have been arrested on Saturday.
The hackers have cheated a Delhi based company.
Sumit Gupta and Ankit Singh are from Moradabad and are the most sophisticated hackers in the country.The hackers have cheated a Delhi based company.
"We received a complaint from the head of recharge of Memory Electronics Pvt Ltd about the website being hacked," said Triveni Singh, DSP (cyber crime cell) GB Nagar.
They were traced back through their IP address.
The police said:
"After hacking into the server, the accused obtained administrative rights of the website. When users asked for recharge of their cellphones, DTH cards, net cards, etc, the hackers would just key in the cell number and the amount to be topped up. However, no bill would be generated as the hackers had bypassed the payment page," Triveni said.
"This way the recharge company would be debited every time without a bill, leading to losses worth several lakhs," the DSP said.
Mr Trivedi also added:
"We have found that Shrinivas is the founder and president of a cyber security and anti-hacking organization. But now he is involved in hacking himself and has made a business out of it, Shrinivas, facebook name 'neo', is from Kohlapur in Maharashtra; Ajay Dhaka, alias dark look, is from Jaipur; Raman Kumar Rana, facebook name 'google warrior', is a resident of Pathankot; and Manmohan, alias 'mack', is from Muradabad"
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"After hacking into the server, the accused obtained administrative rights of the website. When users asked for recharge of their cellphones, DTH cards, net cards, etc, the hackers would just key in the cell number and the amount to be topped up. However, no bill would be generated as the hackers had bypassed the payment page," Triveni said.
"This way the recharge company would be debited every time without a bill, leading to losses worth several lakhs," the DSP said.
Mr Trivedi also added:
"We have found that Shrinivas is the founder and president of a cyber security and anti-hacking organization. But now he is involved in hacking himself and has made a business out of it, Shrinivas, facebook name 'neo', is from Kohlapur in Maharashtra; Ajay Dhaka, alias dark look, is from Jaipur; Raman Kumar Rana, facebook name 'google warrior', is a resident of Pathankot; and Manmohan, alias 'mack', is from Muradabad"
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