The information of students of edu-tech institutions, information of RTOs of various states, leading e-commerce institutions, fintech companies, social media including Instagram and YouTube have also been taken by the accused.
Hyderabad: Cyberabad police in Telangana have arrested the accused in the biggest data theft in the country. Cyberabad police arrested Vinay Bharadwaj, who was involved in data theft and data selling based in Faridabad, Haryana. According to the police, he took and sold the personal and confidential data of 66.9 crore people and various organizations in the country.
Data from companies like Byjuice, Vedantu, Netflix, Amazon and the government’s GST and RTO. Police say that he also stole the information. He used to sell databases through the website ‘Inspirewebs’. The police said that the accused had an extensive network with eight metro cities in all 24 states of the country and this was the biggest data theft in the country.
The information of students of edu-tech institutions, information of RTOs of various states, leading e-commerce institutions, fintech companies, and social media including Instagram and YouTube have been taken by the accused. Police seized two mobile phones, two laptops and various data from him.
The details of defense officials, government employees, PAN card holders, school students, senior citizens, Delhi electricity consumers, D-MAT account holders and mobile numbers of many people were recovered from the accused by the police. Apart from this, the information of NEET exam students, high net worth individuals, insurance policy holders and credit-debit card holders have also been seized from the accused.
The police said that he was in possession of 135 categories of data, including the information of various government institutions and private institutions. According to the figures released by the Cyberabad police, the information of 1.57 crore people has been taken by the accused from Kerala alone.