A group hackers in Kashmir reportedly indulged in a cyber crime of stealing money over the net. Jan 21, Saturday an amateur group of hackers reportedly transferred money from a person's account into their's.astonishingly enough,the hackers were not at all technically equipped neither did possess much amount of computer knowledge.
A complaint against this was lodged in north city police station on Jan 17, by Jamsheed Rasool Chowdhary, stating that he received messages from the bank saying that Rs 185000 has been deducted from his account number- SB-19088, although he never withdrew any money. The case was spoken about by superintendent of police, north city Shoket Shah, he also said that the case was solved within 4 days of its filing. He also added that this incident of hacking by amateur hackers pointed out that the online bank accounts could be highly vulnerable to hackers.
Police acted promptly and also seeked help of cyber cell, j&k police. Various suspects were questioned and it was not very hard to conclude that the crime was committed by a total of three people headed by their ring leader Firdous Ahmed. He reportedly transferred Rs 185000 to three different bank accounts, first by the name of Aqib Kawdari and the other two by the name of Adnan Mirza. From Adnan Mirza's account the money was then transferred to the account of Abid through Cheque. Finally the sum was transferred to the account of Firdous Ahmad.
The group is now behind bars in the same case FIR NO 02/2012 u/s 420 RPC and 66/IT act and the SP has advised the people to use net-banking with atmost care and caution.
source:-http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Jan/22/police-unearth-e-banking-hacking-13.asp
