Cyber Police Arrested A Thief Possessing 66.9 Cr Confidential And Individuals Data

Hyderabad, April 1 (Maxim News): Cyberabad Police has arrested a person Vinay Bhardwaj involved in committing theft, procuring and selling of personal and confidential data of 66.9 crore individuals and organisations of 24 states and 8 metropolitan cities. The accused is found possessing data of students and different organisations.

The accused Vinay Bhardwaj established an office in Faridabad, Haryana and collected the database from Amer Sohail and Madan Gopal, which he used to promote social media platforms to resell the data to fraudsters for profits. and seized 2 mobile phones, 2 laptops, and Data f 135 categories containing sensitive information of government, private organisation and individuals.

Also, he possesses the data of 1.84 lakh cab users of 8 metro cities and data of 4.5 lakh salaried employees of 6 cities and Gujarat state. Further, the accused holds consumer/customer data of major organisations like GST (Pan India), RTO (Pan India), Amazon, Netflix, Youtube, Paytm, Phonepe, Big Basket, BookMyShow, Instagram, Zomato, Policybazaar, Upstox, etc.

The accused person is found selling personal and confidential data of about 66.9 crore individuals and organisations maintained in 104 categories. This includes 51.9 crores of data of individuals and organisations of 24 states and 8 cities maintained in 44 categories. Some of the important data held by the accused include the data of defence personnel; government employees; PAN card holders; students data of 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th standard; senior citizens; Delhi electricity consumers; D-MAT account holders; mobile numbers of various individuals; NEET students; High Net worth Individuals; insurance holders; credit card and debit card holders, etc.

In this case, the accused person was operating through a website “InspireWebz” in Faridabad, Haryana and selling databases to the clients through cloud drive links. The accused is holding data of 4.5 Lakh salaried employees of 06 metropolitan cities and Gujarat state. Some of the important categories are data of Banks, Insurance, Financial Services, Doctors, Software Engineers, True-caller and Telecom Data, Trading and Stockbroking, Consulting services of crores of individuals, etc. Data of NEET students with their names, father names, mobile numbers, and their residences are also found with these accused. PAN Card database containing sensitive information on income, email ids, phone numbers, addresses, etc was also found. Data of Government employees containing information on their name, mobile number, category, date of birth, etc were also found. Further, the database of the car owners of the vehicles, Job Aspirants data, Real Estate, Construction, Manufacturing Industries, Frequent Flyer Travel details, NRI Database, etc was also identified with them. (Maxim News)

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